Bonus Episode: Men are Being Demonized for the So-Called "Labor Shortage" 🦜

Not content to settle for generational clickbait, now we need to point fingers based on gender. 😒

On November 13th, I published the article, "The poop storm is your fault" because that's where we're at. The fat cats who created this mess are NOT gonna blame themselves. But they and their corporate shills are more than happy to blame others.

According to Mike Rowe's podcast, "It's Worse Than You Think. The workforce participation rate that is.  The number of able-bodied men choosing not to work is a crisis, and Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, can prove it." This spawned an amusing video Dave Ramsey produced titled, "7 Million American Males Refuse to Go to Work (Here's Why)."

Naturally, we MUST ask the question: is this even true?

Key topics:

✔️ Is it important to try something new and fail? Yes, of course. But using that as a justification for staying in a crappy job that you hate rather than finding a better one seems like a pretty bizarre notion to me. We're getting really close to: "sit down, shut up, and do what you're told, dammit. Now, we're not gonna do that  and we haven't worked for a boss in 20 years, but you had better obey, peon!" 
✔️ Is it accurate that 7 million men (specifically) are not working and are not even looking for work? Well, we can find literally THE SAME story going back to August of 2016. See for yourself! https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-7-million-american-men-063039864.html  /  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2016/08/15/men-not-at-work-why-so-many-men-ages-of-25-to-54-are-not-working/
✔️ So even though this statistic is 5+ years old, we're now seeing it recycled as the cause of the so-called labor shortage. Essentially, the argument is: stop watching TV and playing video games and go to work instead, you 7 million dudes. If you took these jobs, we wouldn't have inflation and we wouldn't have a labor shortage! Never mind The Fed's policies or the printing up of fiat currency like it was candy. Ohhhh noooo. Now we're gonna resurrect an old story and use it for the blame game!


Links I discuss in this episode:

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdWRpb2Jvb20uY29tL2NoYW5uZWxzLzUwNjAzMTMucnNz/episode/dGFnOmF1ZGlvYm9vbS5jb20sMjAyMi0xMC0xNzovcG9zdHMvODE3NjM0MA?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwj4v9bE4dH7AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&hl=en


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg5CrDj1VC4


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