America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men

Re:America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men by angmarsbane on Friday October 07, 2016 @07:10PM (#12664632)

There is a high cost to feeling like you're falling behind your peers or not contributing to the world. The math may seem easy but I think too much idleness is costly to one's sense of worth and place in the world.

I refuse to believe that enabling women to be financially independent is a negative thing. If men's income is less important this means men can invest in careers or outlets that they didn't have the freedom to pursue before due to familial obligations. It does not mean that men must be idle.

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Re:America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men by jimmywanger on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:12AM (#12670081)

> There is a high cost to feeling like you're falling behind your peers or not contributing to the world. The math may seem easy but I think too much idleness is costly to one's sense of worth and place in the world.

The whole point is that cost is getting lower and lower.

> I refuse to believe that enabling women to be financially independent is a negative thing

That sounds like an ideological argument.

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