Re:Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on w...
by TheOtherHobbes on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:51AM
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Manufacturing has been dwindling for decades as a result of deliberate policy choices to offshore. So it's not as if this is a new thing.
Without factory work, non-professional men have been shunted into precarious low-quality driving and general logistics - Uber, Deliveroo, other parcel couriers, warehouse logistics.
Most of those don't require physical strength, so the premise that Diploma Man wants a job with heavy lifting to feel manly is bizarre.
Re:Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on w...
by anovikov on Friday June 05, 2026 @12:04PM
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Manufacturing is not dwindling; manufacturing employment has been, but it was that way everywhere in the world. It's productivity. There's nothing that could be done about it.
Without factory work, non-professional men have been shunted into precarious low-quality driving and general logistics - Uber, Deliveroo, other parcel couriers, warehouse logistics.
Most of those don't require physical strength, so the premise that Diploma Man wants a job with heavy lifting to feel manly is bizarre.