"...While “unemployment” has gone down, the work participation rate, and especially the male work rate, has been relentlessly declining for most of the post-War era and is now reaching a crisis with Depression-era levels.
In his new book, Men Without Work, Eberstadt describes this as a deep moral and social crisis which is passing almost unnoticed by politicians, pundits, business leaders and economists.
One-sixth of all men of prime working age in America – men aged between 25 and 54 – are not just unemployed, but have stopped looking for jobs altogether.
This is a time bomb with far reaching economic, social, and political consequences.
....Never before in American history have so many men done absolutely nothing.
Millions are becoming dependent, infantilized and sick.
...And what did they do with their time?
Paint watercolours?
Help at a local nursing home?
Vacuuming?
None of the above.
They spent less time in volunteer and religious activities than the other three groups.
They don’t read newspapers much.
They don’t vote much.
A third of them have used illegal drugs in the past year.
Basically they did nothing much..."
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