<story><title>Men Without Work (2016)</title><url>https://time.com/4504004/men-without-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianai</author><text>In lieu of any particular review I’m submitting the Wikipedia page.&lt;p&gt;I was unemployed for most of the Great Recession and can empathize with much of this book. I also just remember the “tragedy of my twenties” realizing society had basically no interest in me. Despite a math degree and IT&amp;#x2F;programming experience. Then the myriad people I’ve interacted with in the last decade plus who are in this situation.&lt;p&gt;Luckily I now have good paying career. But I fear a society that leaves so many cold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scottLobster</author><text>Yeah it seems like there used to be a cultural value of putting people to work.  Generally speaking you had to be a real fuck-up to not get a job.  Maybe the jobs available weren&amp;#x27;t the best, but you could get something to pay for basic food&amp;#x2F;housing with little effort or credentialing.  The attitude was, if you were a decent person and willing to work, &amp;quot;come by and we&amp;#x27;ll find something for you to do&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Now the zeitgeist in the job market seems to be &amp;quot;Why should we give you the gift of this job?  Speak quickly and well, lest we cast you back into the void!  You are a piece of shit until proven otherwise!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Granted some of that was always around for more competitive jobs, and some fields like engineering seem relatively exempt (outside of FAANG-style interviews) due to demand, but given what I was taught to expect growing up by schools&amp;#x2F;parents vs what reality turned out to be, there&amp;#x27;s definitely been a shift.</text></comment>
<story><title>Men Without Work (2016)</title><url>https://time.com/4504004/men-without-work/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ianai</author><text>In lieu of any particular review I’m submitting the Wikipedia page.&lt;p&gt;I was unemployed for most of the Great Recession and can empathize with much of this book. I also just remember the “tragedy of my twenties” realizing society had basically no interest in me. Despite a math degree and IT&amp;#x2F;programming experience. Then the myriad people I’ve interacted with in the last decade plus who are in this situation.&lt;p&gt;Luckily I now have good paying career. But I fear a society that leaves so many cold.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fullshark</author><text>Society (meaning gov&amp;#x27;t programs) doesn&amp;#x27;t care about you beyond your economic output.  We offshored countless unskilled labor jobs that men would traditionally take in America and told them they needed to take out crippling loans in order to get knowledge worker skills that our industry is working overtime to make obsolete within 5-10 years anyway.&lt;p&gt;Many just are giving up, they don&amp;#x27;t see an opportunity here, they just are going to play video games, take drugs, and accomplish nothing with their lives.</text></comment>