Record number of working-age men are not working

Unconfidence · 2014-05-31T07:02:45+00:00

I'm a working-age man who isn't working. And it's not because I don't see an increase in my quality of life when I work.

It's because I've spent every day for the past two weeks looking for employment at everything from lawyers' offices to goddamn McDonald's, and even with two degrees, not a single business in the capital of my state seems willing to hire me.

heimdahl81 · 2014-05-30T21:13:01+00:00

They're just mooching off their compartively wealthy baby-boomer parents. They're not looking for jobs because they don't see an increase in the quality of their life for doing so.

When my father was my age, a job straight out of college was enough for him to rent a respectable home, support a non-working wife, and raise two kids.

Now, an average job out out college barely covers the rent of a rat-hole and the food for a single person. Every person I know who is my approximate age, who has moved out of their parents home, is renting tiny, bottom-of-the-barrel apartments with between one and five room mates.

Wages have not kept up with inflation. We're making less and less money while billionaires make more and more.

Lurker_IV · 2014-05-31T07:37:25+00:00

This is more a "problem with capitalism" than it is a "men's rights problem". I don't mean to complain about it being mentioned here, I just want to clarify a little.

Its such a shame, in my view, that feminism has so fully integrated itself into Marxist and socialist formats. Not because I have a problem with socialism. In fact I am strongly in support of socialism and consider myself a socialist. I think converting to a socialist economy would eliminate most of our inequality problems including the gender problems we discuss here so often. The problem is that because feminism has so thoroughly co-opted socialist circles that MRAs have turned against socialism in turn.

I don't think any of this was an accident either.

I believe the reason why feminist movements were supported by the CIA and other groups so early on is because they realized that making the fight into men vs. women and patriarchy vs. feminism it would distract from the real struggle of economic class warfare. Its the old divide and conqueror strategy. They managed to pull of some real JEDI level mind trickery when they convinced people, "class warfare is not the struggle you a looking for".

For example JUST TODAY this article has been making the rounds Slut-shaming has little to do with sex, study finds. Feminists have been making slut shaming a "patriarchy issue" for decades, but all along its probably actually been a class issue.

I hope we can look past the unfortunate melding of feminist patriarchy theory with socialist class warfare theories and work to a more socialist future that will solve so many problems for BOTH genders.

not_just_amwac · 2014-05-30T23:04:05+00:00

If One-Term-Tony gets his way, Australia will soon go the same way.

Title	Record number of working-age men are not working
Author	evil_bandito
Upvotes	14
Comments	12
Date	May 30, 2014 8:00 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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