“There has been more of a transition where parents are supporting their adult children for longer,” she said. “The data do show that more young adult men live with their parents than women. The wealth transfer from older generations to younger generations is part of that story.”

And then there are the partners. “Almost everybody you talk to will have a story” about supporting an unemployed man, Ullrich said, adding that what’s changed isn’t the dynamic itself, but the fact that it no longer carries the stigma it once did. The stay-at-home boyfriend, once a punchline, is now a statistically significant labor market phenomenon.

A landmark paper published in the Journal of Political Economy, first circulated through the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that roughly 70% of the hours young men aren’t working are being spent on video games and recreational computer use. The economists calculated that improvements in gaming technology since 2004 alone can explain nearly half the increase in young men’s leisure hours.

“I think that’s part of the story — the basement story,” Ullrich said, in reference to a trope of young men playing video games in their parent’s basement.

The opioid epidemic compounded it, hitting non-college-educated men especially hard. And critically, men, compared to women, largely don’t qualify for government assistance programs like SNAP or TANF without a disability, meaning when they exit the workforce, the financial burden falls on whoever is closest to them.

  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    12 days ago

    I mean, they said, “you guys”, not “OP”, but uh …

    … yeah, I’m all about “dude” and “guys” as gender-neutral, have no idea your pronouns, and don’t even remember what the Wild Feed community is supposed to be about just this moment. I’ll show myself out. As in, that’s the closest I’ve got to a contribution; I’m not packing my bags like “Surely” promised they are, no matter how much of my life I’ve spent as an unemployed moocher, and mad about it.

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksOP
      4·
      12 days ago

      The other users here are well known for our feminism and for pushback from some lemmings because of it.

      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        12 days ago

        It shouldn’t amuse me as much as it does how they seem to believe they are scoring points by calling out pushback in advance. Looks like a self-own, in my book.

        • SurelyItsNotPossible@sh.itjust.worksBanned
          1·
          12 days ago

          Why are you so afraid to interact with me directly lmfao weirdest users on this site I swear

          Yeah I’m getting owned by a bunch of emotional lemmings for sure bro faaak they got me good

          Now you’re insta downvoting me HAHA fucking emotions off the charts, cry more buddy

          • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
            4·
            12 days ago

            Why would I assume you were still here to reply if I did so? Here’s me apologizing for taking you at your word, Not.

            On a more realistic note, why would I encourage you to discredit yourself further by replying to me replying to you? The fact that you can’t understand that would benefit no-one, least-of-all yourself, only confirms I was right to approach things the way I did.

            Lastly, I’ve been a little busy watching Shimoneta, stuffing my face, and washing my laundry over the last 45 minutes to go “insta downvoting”. Even your average unemployed dude is apparently too busy with video-games for that level of loser-dom, but since you asked so nicely, I guess I can spare two or three downvotes on my way back to what I was doing.

          • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
            3·
            12 days ago

            The only one around here with feelings and not facts is you dude. You cite no sources, and just allow your feelings to create your comments, thereby allowing you to fall into multiple logical fallacies. You’re no Spock or Data, no matter what lies you tell yourself.

    • Wren@lemmy.todayMEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      I originally made it for all the news sources the other major journalism coms kept removing. Now it’s just a lax news community.

      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
        3·
        12 days ago

        I mean, “Wild Feed” spells it out nicely in my book, but what’s-their-face was just so vehement about “well known bias” or whatever other “obvious” non-sense, the only chill I’m taking for granted is my own lol.

        The way they ascribed it to “this site”, and pre-emptively denied anyone who might otherwise consider it the option of agreeing with any one of their points, seemed pretty obvious they were just fishing with non-sense to me. Kinda shit I might write if I were the one who secretly hated NEETs.

        • Wren@lemmy.todayMEnglish
          3·
          12 days ago

          That was wild. I don’t usually get crash-outs over here in the quieter corner of political discourse. I hope they find their way out.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      3·
      12 days ago

      Originally dude is gender neutral. A dude is someone that knows nothing about living on a working farm or ranch. Hence the tourist traps called Dude Ranches that were popular in the early to mid 20th century.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
          3·
          12 days ago

          I made the comment for the young’uns. One of the interesting things I discovered in Debate Club was that people watching the debate are swayed by calm rational arguments, and the crowd will side with the person that makes the most sense to them. In modern times many people have an inherent, though it may be tenuous, sense of logical arguments vs fallacies and deflection. This worked just as well, if not better, when I was accosted by proselytizing Christians on the sidewalk in downtown of multiple cities.