Something I didn't see in the article: the effect of competition on expectations. The majority of males in the US are of course white. Increased access to the w

Something I didn't see in the article: the effect of competition on expectations. The majority of males in the US are of course white. Increased access to the workforce for women and minority men means competition is greater than the days of their fathers/grandfathers etc when white males had a monopoly on all but the lowest-level jobs. As such, those who fail to see the context of that system may feel despair over what they see as lower standards than they were raised to believe were possible.