Interesting Statistic: participation rate for men peaked in 1949 at 87.4%

 It’s true that the pandemic, which of course produced a number of factors that made working more difficult never mind dangerous, pushed the labor participation rate to a record low. But the fact that millions of American males have not been working precedes COVID-19 by decades. In fact, the participation rate for men peaked at 87.4% in October 1949 and has been dropping steadily ever since. It now stands at 67.7%.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/7-ways-men-live-without-working-in-america-092147068.html

My personal opinion is that as you educate men they are less likely to become slaves to society.

During the Viet Nam war first men and then women followed the men to college. This would be from around the early 1960s onward. When you educate men they begin to see how things really are and will less likely put up with being slaves. However, when you educate women something different happens because they might have already felt like their mothers and grandmothers had been slaves kept barefoot and pregnant. So, for women the dynamic is actually quite different than for men.

When you educate a man he might start thinking like an aristocrat and no longer like a working fool or slave. When a man is educated he begins to see the wisdom of "Working Smarter not harder" as he sees all the men around him doing blue collar jobs dying in their 20s, 30s, 40s, or in battle in wars overseas. So, unless the man is suicidal and wants to die because he cannot marry the girl he is in love with he might not join the army. Since the draft is gone there is nothing to put the fear of death or the fear of God into men anymore from the outside.

So, you wind up with a whole group of educated aristocratic thinkers who might be self starters starting their own businesses or living alternative lifestyles like many started to do in the 1960s and 1970s nationwide. 

Educated men are no longer slaves generally speaking. This is something to consider always.

I cannot speak to what is entirely going on with women because they are another dynamic entirely with a completely different history for thousands and thousands of years.