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Why are American men leaving the workforce at historic rates?
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At least it’s not because they’re millennials.
It's about to be! They're already showing me, a millennial, articles about a "job cliff".
They said less "producing jobs" that men find fullfilling. More women dominated service jobs. They say its because men culture hurr durr how they were raised. But then again why younger men also sre affected. The answer was inconclusive. Men statistically dont get as high education as women.
I think there is a recession and many men are simply squeezed out of the market. If we produce everything in Asia, there wont be producing jobs here. And its not only low skill jobs which went there. Building and maintaining factory machinery is nearly non existant.
I nailed it.
So it's B) women, with a twist of C) immigrants, because it's the non-white people who would be scary immigrants if they were to come here 🇺🇸🦅
(This is a joke. I am making fun of my country's systemic bigotry towards anyone who is not a white, male landowner. Safe travels to anyone coming here for FIFA, but I think you're a bit crazy to do so.)
I will never know, apparently they blocked vietnam.
Try here? The NPR article is just a copy/paste from this one.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/05/26/men-leaving-workforce
Thanks, that page loads, but I'm not going to listen to an entire podcast.
Me either, TBH.
all of them, but more emphasis on A and D. but the other 2 is a more convoluted process. visa holders are preferred over citizens, which includes men and women, they get to threaten them with deportation by holding thier visa hostage, for women in bio they are dominating men, because they have various forms of help to get experience, grad school and a job over men who abandons it due to lack of support(this includes both health and biotech, but not at the PHD level yet).