Tag: young men

Another Reason Men Don’t Work: Imaginary World More Enjoyable Than The Real World

Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

President Trump, like President Obama before him, point out the low unemployment rate as a measure of success.

What they don’t point out are masses of people on welfare via fraudulent disabilities, people in school wasting money in dead-end retraining exercises, people who have simply given up looking for a job, and people in forced retirement needing Social Security payments to survive.

A team of researchers from Princeton, the University of Chicago, and the University of Rochester discusses another class of individuals who are not working but are not counted as unemployed: People, primarily young men who are addicted to games. For such individuals, games provide a fantasy world that is far more enjoyable than the real world.

Please consider their report on Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men.

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The Number of Young Men Not Working Has Doubled in 15 Years

Via The Daily Signal

Young men are working less and playing video games more, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study published Monday.

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Old Men Start Wars, Young Men Die In Them

Submitted by Laurence Vance via LewRockwell.com,

“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.” ~ Albert Einstein

 

“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” ~ Herbert Hoover

 

“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” ~ George S. McGovern

One hundred years ago – on July 1, 1916 – thousands of young men died after older men decided, again, to send them to war. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the British army suffered 57,470 casualties, of which 19,240 were deaths, the French had 1,590 casualties, and the Germans had over 10,000. It was the single greatest day for casualties in British military history. By the time the Battle of the Somme ended in November, the British had around 420,000 casualties, the French about 200,000, and the Germans about 500,000.

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