Why Are Healthy Men Exiting The Workforce? | Nick Eberstadt Clip #274 | The Way I Heard It

Skilled labor isn’t cheap and cheap labor isn’t skilled.

Im retired from the auto repair industry, Im 65. I had a company call me saying they wanted a older auto technician. Long story short, i said ok for $40.00 per hour. They laughed and offered me $25.00 per hour. I said, i made 25 a hour 25 years ago, Have a nice day

Here's what hard work gets you now: Someone else's job (along with your current job), with little to no pay increase, under substandard conditions and practices that you're supposed to ignore.

I don't think this conversation covers what's actually been going on in the American job market for the past 20 + years. Stagnant pay, little to no benefits, influx of illegal immigrants bring down wages, now its DEI and if you are not bilingual your at the bottom of hiring list.

A lot of companies post jobs, but won’t actually hire. They post to make it seem like they’re trying to hire a reasonable number of people to do a job, while actually short staffing to save costs. Additionally they are not paying in keeping with the current cost of living. They don’t give raises to people who work harder, longer hours, or are good at their job - no incentive to do good work. Workers burn out and become exhausted and quit. This is not just for men. It’s a huge problem in medical. Especially for nursing, techs, phlebotomists and all of the support staff (receptionists, janitors etc etc.). The games large companies play are brutal.

I worked 34 years as a cultural resource surveyor in western wildlands. Most of my jobs were 500 miles from home and requiring camping. Last year when I was approaching my 66 birthday, I realized I wasn't physically or mentally able to hike up and over mountains or work my way through increasingly cluttered forests. At the same time, everything got more and more expensive while wages didn't move the needle. I gave notice and when I got home, I totaled my costs versus pay and per diem. Discovered for the past 7 months I had been paying to work. No wonder I couldn't make ends meet.

I'm not gonna get fucked over. Its this simple. I believe in hard work, but the employers are busy scamming their customers and employees.

In my 60's and no company wants someone my age at a full-time above poverty pay

No potential for wife, no potential for kids, no potential for home ownership, no potential for toys, no potential for vacations, no potential for retirement. Just menial jobs where you toil your life away to live paycheck to paycheck to paycheck. The system is broken and young people just don't care anymore. We can all suffer together.

Men would work to start families, no families, Men don't see why working hard anymore. Just make enough to maintain for themselves.