“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.
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.
You and me, both. Outside, I’m rational. Inside, I’m a swarm of murder hornets with my sights set on those perpetuating this hellscape. It didn’t have to be this way.
Well I sincerely hope that you, like I was, were trained by the military to engage, eliminate, and evaporate.
I am a USAF veteran, good call. I’m just much better with logistics and planning.