As of last year, 22 percent of men between the ages of 21 and 30 with less than a bachelor's degree reported not working at all in the previous year — up from only 9.5 percent in 2000. Overall, only 88 percent of men between the ages of 25 and 54 are working or looking for work, the third-lowest among 34 developed countries, according to the White House's Council of Economic Advisers.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with most of the entry level jobs being shipped overseas to the Peoples' Republic of Asscrackistan and a good deal of the remaining ones being given to illegals by greedy, unethical bosses because they can?
We need eugenics more than ever. People that perform simple labor have never been less valuable, yet it probably isn't an exaggeration to say that half of our population is incapable of doing much more than that.
Trump's the opposite of that. He wants the most worthless people to have jobs at the expense of everything else.
/pol/ basement dwellers are not going to be picking fruit or day labor in the sun anyway.
Finally, I think a lot of this falls on their parents and the school system. Many of these kids graduatibg today are told that they are special. Mommy's little snowflake. These kids get into the real world and they can't take criticism. The real world doesn't give a f*ck. So, these "men" go right back home to their nice comfortable homes. Where they can play video games all day.
Sure, but if those jobs opened up and were available to US citizens with an increase in wage to attract people, other people could possibly transfer to them.
There are more people looking for jobs than job openings. There's this farce that we have a shortage of STEM grads. Getting an engineering degree doesn't guarantee at all a job in engineering. Mediocre engineers are a dime a dozen Likewise, getting a degree in the hard sciences will leave you likely even worse off. For example, the job offerings for chemistry are so piss-poor that employers are offering $12 an hour jobs with no bennies in mudane QA stuff for BS and MS holders. Much of it has gone overseas to India and other places. Now we have increasing amounts of JIT work from temporary agencies.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...are-3-unemployed-people-every-job-opening-ob/
"Sperling said that in today’s economy, there are three people looking for work per job available. We crunched BLS numbers and got the same ratio, as did economists. The BLS data has shortcomings, some that would make the ratio higher and some that would make it lower. It also might not accurately reflect what the climate looks like from the perspective of employers or job seekers. Still, these are minor quibbles. We rate his statement True."
Aside from all the self-fellatio and the over-simplification of what a gene does, does what he said really bother you? You don't believe that some people are born smarter, more extroverted, etc? Do you believe that we were all "created equal"?
There tends to be a lot of overconfident dumb people fixated on this, easily led to presumably do something about it. Frankly it doesn't even make any sense since it's only beneficial for the smart ones to have a permanent underclass underneath, and not so advantageous to the dummies for something to be done about them.
We need eugenics more than ever. People that perform simple labor have never been less valuable, yet it probably isn't an exaggeration to say that half of our population is incapable of doing much more than that. We'll probably hit a point where only a tiny minority of geniuses is capable of pushing forward our production and technological edge, where regular work entails incredible understanding, and most of us will need to die.
While its certainly true that technology has and will continue to progressively eliminate the need for manual labor, and even simple non-manual labor, technology also over time improves productivity, meaning there may well be plenty of resources to distribute to those who don't work even after making sure that everyone who works lives quite well. That, however, requires a political paradigm shift, and a leftward one, by today's standards. Or we can go with eugenics and make sure these undesirables are never born. Your way sounds rather dystopic to me.
Maybe they need to adapt? There are many more who are actually doing well. I gave a friend in sales. Hecsamells life insurance. No college. Broke $150k so far. He has 3 streams of income.
There is money out there. Maybe they should learn how to hustle instead of waiting for things to happen. It's not going to happen unless you're willing to work 12-16 hour days. Hustle your face off until you make your dreams a reality. You see, we've been conditioned to go to college and when we graduate our life will be all set up for us. We will make good money, have a family and never have to worry about anything.
Why should they work? It's government's job to seize all the wealth and redistribute it fairly.
yesAre streamers considered unemployed? I think some of these guys just live on paypal donations.