“There has been more of a transition where parents are supporting their adult children for longer,” she said. “The data do show that more young adult men live with their parents than women. The wealth transfer from older generations to younger generations is part of that story.”
And then there are the partners. “Almost everybody you talk to will have a story” about supporting an unemployed man, Ullrich said, adding that what’s changed isn’t the dynamic itself, but the fact that it no longer carries the stigma it once did. The stay-at-home boyfriend, once a punchline, is now a statistically significant labor market phenomenon.
A landmark paper published in the Journal of Political Economy, first circulated through the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that roughly 70% of the hours young men aren’t working are being spent on video games and recreational computer use. The economists calculated that improvements in gaming technology since 2004 alone can explain nearly half the increase in young men’s leisure hours.
“I think that’s part of the story — the basement story,” Ullrich said, in reference to a trope of young men playing video games in their parent’s basement.
The opioid epidemic compounded it, hitting non-college-educated men especially hard. And critically, men, compared to women, largely don’t qualify for government assistance programs like SNAP or TANF without a disability, meaning when they exit the workforce, the financial burden falls on whoever is closest to them.
It’s hard to take anything more than the raw numbers seriously with the amount of opinionated ooze slopping off this article. It goes out of its way to villify the men for spending time on leisure activities while barely giving a sentence to the extreme economic conditions that caused this in the first place. The tone of the article slants this like overgrown man babies are too busy playing videogames and apparently doing opioids??? to get a job while handwaving the bigger issue - an increasingly expensive and hostile economy without safety nets.
Reading the whole article would show that’s not true. It goes on at length about how male dominated roles are being adversely impacted by AI, the lack of social safety nets, and how there isn’t any push to get men into growing, more stable careers.
Well shit, that’s a concern. Like it’s totally cool if they’re doing chores and that’s what’s been agreed to or they’re looking for work, it’s rough out there and I’ve had periods of unemployment myself. But it’s bad for everyone when an adult is a non-contributing dependent with no disability or path forward
Yeah this isn’t a great sign as far as job availability and such goes. It’s tough on these guys and doubled because of the societal expectation that men are providers.
Yeah, hopefully this will be an opportunity for our culture to shed the idea that men have to be providers to contribute to their households properly as men.
Like, if they’re just being stay at home partners who pick up the financial side of their slack with household labor then that’s my only real worry outside the fact that every belt has been getting kinda tight.
But also NEETrot is real and that’s where a lot of my concern is. I’ve been on both sides of it and it really sucks for all involved, especially if you aren’t getting out and doing things. I worry for these men’s mental health and ability to sustain themselves as well as their ability to leave potentially abusive situations they may find themselves in.
I completely agree on every point. It can be dangerous to be the partner that is at home and dependent on the working partner.
More equality is better for men! I’m sure there’s a lot of men that are quite suited to being the stay-at-home parent and would love the opportunity and freedom to do so without the stigma.
If chores are taking-up more than 30% of an unemployed person’s (waking)free-time, something has gone very wrong. I feel the same way about the free-time of the employed as-well, but that’s 25% of another topic.
Contribute to wars, environment rape and corrupted pdfs?
Or like, they could take up extra chores since they aren’t having to spend a bunch of hours busy everyday earning rent money
Why would we care if they do whatever
Why are you commenting here then?
To say I don’t care wether they do chores. I’m not their nanny state
Oh, well that’s just part of living with others.
Negotiating all that is part of living with others, and none of our business outside of those households. At least I think, provided hneer has any point at all, that’s what they are getting at.
As someone who is constantly begging my wife to chill the F out on prying into our adult children’s free-time, provided their rooms are clean, agreed-upon chores done, they stay employed and/or in-school, this topic hits home for me.
I’ll say it every time it comes up: we need universal basic income set at a thriving wage. The core issue shouldn’t be that men are being disproportionately affected by job loss, it should be that they aren’t being supported by the same systems that shafted them out of a living.
The article touches upon low/no income benefits, but those are largely for people who are temporarily out of the work force. What happens when the amount of people exceed the number of jobs that pay a living wage, like we see now?
Fine, give us automation, but at least let everyone afford to live.
And critically, men, compared to women, largely don’t qualify for government assistance programs like SNAP or TANF without a disability, meaning when they exit the workforce, the financial burden falls on whoever is closest to them.
What are the qualification for SNAP and TANF related to gender? I thought it was about having kids, which men are free to take care of; though combining incomes and households is kind of a bad idea if you’re trying to qualify for benefits.
It’s because of dependents. More women have dependents than men.
TANF requires a dependent minor child or a pregnant individual.
SNAP only covers 3 months for able-bodied adults without dependents.
EBT/SNAP benefits are supposed to be available for everyone. Unfortunately/ fortunately* the states control who is eligible and what means testing they are going to use. GOP controlled states have decided that if you’re male and working age that you have to spend a fuckton of money up front to get doctors appointments, that if your case survives the decades long process of automated denials and eventually a judge maybe overturning all the illegal denials, despite crippling disabilities, that will maybe say that you are entitled to the benefits that you already paid for with your taxes.
Fortunately* right now because the purple states and blue states ignored the federal EOs that said they needed to do these ridiculous and expensive means testing to determine who gets benefits that, again, you already paid for. All this shit is literally just trying to kill the poor so that the psychologically sick hoarders at the top are able to maintain their disease.
Tfw no girlboss girlfriend
Yeah it turns out when you modify a system to where young men are unnaturally and unfairly suppressed compared to everyone else, more and more of them wisen up and stop bothering to try and play a rigged game simply accepting the alternative and making peace with it (also known as ‘no longer bothering to care’) as said suppression grows, how strange…!
And before you guys cry about the truth (since to half of you modern crazies ‘all men are evil because ‘they just are’’ ofc), it’s almost like when women were unnaturally and unfairly suppressed in our history, none of them cared to claw their way through a workforce 2x+ as difficult for them either and just accepted the easier option of staying at home instead of also playing a rigged game…!
But hurr durr deyre just lazy and wanna play vidya gaemz in mamma’s house XD it must be the video games guyz surely, have all your free time with 50% of an entry level salary or lose all your free time for 100% of the same salary, where neither comes remotely close to you EVER affording a home, hmmm which option guys I dunno
I do well at my current job and it pays well but if I was just coming up to finishing high school nowadays I’d probably default to saying fuck this shit too and not even bother trying either
And before you guys cry about the truth (since to half of you modern crazies ‘all men are evil because ‘they just are’’ ofc),
You clearly didn’t read our comments here then. We’re supportive of men.
I mean, they said, “you guys”, not “OP”, but uh …
… yeah, I’m all about “dude” and “guys” as gender-neutral, have no idea your pronouns, and don’t even remember what the Wild Feed community is supposed to be about just this moment. I’ll show myself out. As in, that’s the closest I’ve got to a contribution; I’m not packing my bags like “Surely” promised they are, no matter how much of my life I’ve spent as an unemployed moocher, and mad about it.
The other users here are well known for our feminism and for pushback from some lemmings because of it.
It shouldn’t amuse me as much as it does how they seem to believe they are scoring points by calling out pushback in advance. Looks like a self-own, in my book.
Why are you so afraid to interact with me directly lmfao weirdest users on this site I swear
Yeah I’m getting owned by a bunch of emotional lemmings for sure bro faaak they got me good
Now you’re insta downvoting me HAHA fucking emotions off the charts, cry more buddy
The only one around here with feelings and not facts is you dude. You cite no sources, and just allow your feelings to create your comments, thereby allowing you to fall into multiple logical fallacies. You’re no Spock or Data, no matter what lies you tell yourself.
Why would I assume you were still here to reply if I did so? Here’s me apologizing for taking you at your word, Not.
On a more realistic note, why would I encourage you to discredit yourself further by replying to me replying to you? The fact that you can’t understand that would benefit no-one, least-of-all yourself, only confirms I was right to approach things the way I did.
Lastly, I’ve been a little busy watching Shimoneta, stuffing my face, and washing my laundry over the last 45 minutes to go “insta downvoting”. Even your average unemployed dude is apparently too busy with video-games for that level of loser-dom, but since you asked so nicely, I guess I can spare two or three downvotes on my way back to what I was doing.
Hey hold this for me real quick thanks
Maybe because you just announced how much you hate it here?
Nice just replied to the wrong guy here and he insta blocked me XD reply wasn’t even meant for him but he took it to heart, sensitive AF I guess
Originally dude is gender neutral. A dude is someone that knows nothing about living on a working farm or ranch. Hence the tourist traps called Dude Ranches that were popular in the early to mid 20th century.
Preaching to the choir lol
I made the comment for the young’uns. One of the interesting things I discovered in Debate Club was that people watching the debate are swayed by calm rational arguments, and the crowd will side with the person that makes the most sense to them. In modern times many people have an inherent, though it may be tenuous, sense of logical arguments vs fallacies and deflection. This worked just as well, if not better, when I was accosted by proselytizing Christians on the sidewalk in downtown of multiple cities.
I originally made it for all the news sources the other major journalism coms kept removing. Now it’s just a lax news community.
I mean, “Wild Feed” spells it out nicely in my book, but what’s-their-face was just so vehement about “well known bias” or whatever other “obvious” non-sense, the only chill I’m taking for granted is my own lol.
The way they ascribed it to “this site”, and pre-emptively denied anyone who might otherwise consider it the option of agreeing with any one of their points, seemed pretty obvious they were just fishing with non-sense to me. Kinda shit I might write if I were the one who secretly hated NEETs.
That was wild. I don’t usually get crash-outs over here in the quieter corner of political discourse. I hope they find their way out.
Nah this is my last day on this shithole website and you would not imagine the specimens I have interacted with on this website with my 2 accounts and how they’ve all collectively behaved to me, couldn’t care less anymore but if you’re normal and sane yourself then good for you pal, I would advise you to run from this place asap before you get slowly mindfucked by them and also end up in fantasy land yourself
Had people unironically to the point of refusing to agree with me on the sky being blue lmao, emotional AF community of lemmings
You just described what MSMSM has done to you. This place is a bastion of intelligence and research, you just don’t care about actual knowledge, just your feelings over facts.
We don’t need or want you here if this is the type of behavior you are going to engage in and exhibit. We welcome debate. We do not welcome lies and logical fallicies, which are all the tools you have in your toolkit.
It’s like any online forum type space. You gotta find your niche if you’re going to have a good time here.
I’m sorry your experience has been frustrating so far.
That’s alright I’m a big boy I can take the internet words, just a waste of time to continue on this irrelevant softie platform so fuck it eh I’ll go out with a bang on here why not
Well, cheers I guess lol
If you come back, I promise I’ll only argue about feminism and not the color of the sky hahaha
I love you. Not in my normal creepy way, just in an “I see what you did there” way.
You’re no big boy. You can’t take a single amount of facts overriding your feelings, so you run away like the kindergatener that you never actually learned how to be. You don’t know the basic rules of society, which is why you have been so easily duped by the liars, thieves, and pedophiles, that run and own everything, and are scared now that we now KNOW, YOU/THEY AREN’T LIKE US. You support pedos, that means you’re a wannabe pedo.
I am swayed by your calm, rational argument.
Rational? yes. Calm and unemotional? not exactly. I swore an oath to Humanity, not just The Constitution to defend them both from all imminent threats, both domestic and foreign.
Watching the people who are supposed to be in charge of things tearing down the fundamental bedrocks of the oldest democracy, and one of the oldest countries, on Earth that still exists in its original/current form, makes me want to start using the fourth box of democracy against the Epstien Class.
