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Same reason they are in many countries. Right now, most people are just surviving with assets, mortgages, vehicles, and careers they already have. Starting out
by gjsman-1000 4y ago
Same reason they are in many countries.
Right now, most people are just surviving with assets, mortgages, vehicles, and careers they already have. Starting out though, without these things, is very difficult.
Starting out even 5 years ago was easier. Lower used car prices, lower education costs, and now (for the US) a chance for loan forgiveness, which nobody entering college next year will get. It just gets harder and harder to stand up, to where you just end up questioning why even trying.
Why save $5K as a young man when, due to two years of inflation, you are hardly closer to affording that car than you were when you started?
- PaulHoule 4y agoHow about sex selective abortions? 20 years ago in China people didn't value girls so they aborted them. Today there are many, many men who can't possibly feel valued.
- orangepurple 4y agoAnd have nothing to lose dying in battle either!
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoAnd yet a few days ago - the topic of discussion was how the military used sex as a motivator for war in WW2: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-sexually-troops-world-war-harder.html https://phys.org/news/2022-11-sexually-troops-world-war-hard...
- DFHippie 4y agoAre these things in tension? I expect if you're desperate for sex sexualized recruiting is especially powerful.
- thatguy0900 4y agoThis was for people already recruited. They wanted to sexually frustrate them so they would have more pent up aggression to take out.
- orangepurple 4y agoIt helps to study the "lying flat" (also Tang ping and 躺平) movement as well.
- s3r3nity 4y agoI don't think that adequately explains why trends are disproportionately impacting men, specifically.