Men need to be working — and fewer and fewer of them are
Men benefit from going to work every day to provide for themselves and their families. Yet surveys and studies have consistently shown that millions of able-bodied men are not working or looking for work.
Consider that in 1962 , about 97 percent of men ages 25 to 54 were working or looking for work. Today, that number is closer to 89 percent.
This lack of working men hurts women too; one survey found that 78 percent of women picked “a steady job” as the most important characteristic of a potential husband. Women weighted this characteristic higher than sharing the same beliefs about religion and children.
Currently married men who refuse to work hurt their wives and children by refusing to assist in helping their spouse fulfill her natural desire to be at home with the children. One survey found that women with children under 18 years of age preferred being at home to working.
A 2021 poll by FlexJobs found that women, more than men, preferred remote work versus working inside an office. Some of the reasons cited include work-life balance and more time for family.
Yet many men are wasting hours playing video games or watching television , setting themselves up for a life of immaturity.
Men have a responsibility to wake up every morning and go to work to contribute to society, grow in maturity, and prepare for marriage and fatherhood. This is not because men have an economic duty to contribute to the capitalist economy but rather because they have a social duty to provide for themselves and their families.
A virtuous man does not spend his days on the couch playing video games, drinking alcohol, or watching pornography. Career coach Ken Coleman recently commented on the lack of men working by explaining that having a job helps people mature. “Making a contribution for yourself and for others,” Coleman said, will help men feel “alive.”
He creates something of value and contributes to the common good — a police officer keeps the town safe, a car mechanic helps someone have a reliable car for transportation, and an accountant helps citizens avoid paying unnecessary taxes. Someone who watches television all day does none of this. He wastes the life he has been given in the pursuit of idleness, which he captures every day.
Working, even at a job he does not particularly enjoy, helps prepare men for the sacrifices of marriage and fatherhood. A man who works at a job he does not like to provide for his family puts the interests of others before his own.
Women may not particularly enjoy changing diapers or feeding babies in the middle of the night, but there is a shared experience in knowing that her husband may not particularly enjoy working 12-hour shifts either. In a family and a society, every person makes sacrifices to ensure that others can live a safe and healthy life.
Those benefits do not come from not working, not trying to work, and all around being a lazy human being who refuses to use their life for anything of value to themselves or others.
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Howdy
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“Men benefit from going to work every day to provide for themselves and their families. Yet surveys and studies have consistently shown that millions of able-bodied men are not working or looking for work.”
“A virtuous man does not spend his days on the couch playing video games, drinking alcohol, or watching pornography.”
So men who are ‘non-virtuous’, whatever that points to, since it is entirely eye-of-the-beholder based and no truth in reality, are slobs? Wow, how very quaint and judgemental.
It may come a a surprise that what one sees on the exterior does not have to conform to tradition, nor translate to what is inside. If you need to be lead by other’s belief however…
“a police officer keeps the town safe, a car mechanic helps someone have a reliable car for transportation, and an accountant helps citizens avoid paying unnecessary taxes.”
This is obviously completely out of touch.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Howdy and PSI Readers,
Thank you for providing a contrast for what Matt wrote!
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi VOWG,
Have you read this article? Matt is a younger man who writes about wisdom. So there is HOPE.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Howdy
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Wisdom, Jerry? A white picket fence and traditional ways of living in the past etc, will not cure the planet’s ills, and time stands still for nobody. This is not hope, but attachment to the old familiar, that no longer serves. Humanity has to evolve, because to do otherwise is to stagnate, and so before one can renew, the old must be destroyed. It’s an old repeated story, that is nonetheless, true..
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George
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Howdy: Howdy I hope you’re not using the word evolve in the Darwinian sense, i.e. the perfectibility of man mumbo jumbo. Likewise, the nihilistic belief in change for the sake of change is nonsense. There must be a reason to overturn society. The two major categories are to enhance individual liberty and freedom, good, or to restrict it, bad. What’s your objective?
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Howdy
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Darwin? Old, past, irrelevant, George.
“What’s your objective?”
I have none, and logic alone does not comprehend.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Howdy,
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) I read that Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, and his buddies debated whether matter could be endlessly divided into smaller particles or if there was a particle which could not be further divided. These ancient philosophers decided that matter could be endlessly divided. So for nearly 2000 years some intellectual humans believed this.
However, for nearly 2000 years there were a small group of men who also believed the ancient philosophers who had also concluded that all matter was composed of four elementary forms of matter (earth, water, air, fire) and all other matter could be made from the right combinations of these four. This small group of men, who were termed alchemists and mocked as they tried to find the right combination of earth, water, air, and fire to make GOLD by experimentation rather than by rationally debating. It might be said that the alchemists were doers instead of only thinkers.
And we know from history that a school teacher, John Dalton, in 1803 A.D. on the basis of the experimental results of other alchemists (past and present at that time) concluded that the tiny particles, now termed atoms, could not be endlessly divided. However, we should not forget the fact that at this same time he shared his new experimental results which was summarized as the LAW OF MULTIPLE PROPORTIONS.
Humans have not evolved. Some only stopped debating and became doers..
Have a good day, Jerry
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Howdy
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“Humans have not evolved”
In what time-frame are you speaking, Jerry? Your own life, known, or presumed history of mankind, or even past obliterated civilizations? What you state is ultimately unknowable.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Howdy,
You ask: “In what time-frame are you speaking, Jerry?“ I thought I clearly defined that.
I will go back another a couple thousand years, give or take, to Stonehenge. (https://principia-scientific.com/ancestors-tracing-history-scientific-method/) These ancestors were DOERS and so was R.J.C. Atkinson who studied Stonehenge and wrote the book STONEHENGE (1956).
Have a good day, Jerry
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Howdy
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No Jerry, your definition was not clear.
Twice you have used the word ‘doers’. How does being a doer, rather than a talker, stifle evolution? It will happen regardless of want. It is the reason for cyclicity of existence.
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Hi Howdy.
“How does being a doer, rather than a talker, stifle evolution? It will happen regardless of want.“
Where, or when, did I state that being a doer stifled evolution? Next, what is “it”? If it is “Darwins theory of the evolution of life”, simple and common observations prove this theory to be absolutely wrong. (https://principia-scientific.com/darwins-idea-evolution-about-the-origin-of-life-is-a-wrong-scientific-idea/)
I do believe in the very slow evolution of the physical universe which we see, as aided by our space telescopes and by what I read in the first few pages of The Holy Bible. Which slow evolution is consistent with our observed physical scientific principles and laws. However, I hadn’t yet alluded to this as I am still pondering how to simply and BRIEFLY do this.
Can you explain for FSI readers how to geometrically to divide a circle into 7ths with good precision? The evidence is our ancestors at Stonehenge did.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Howdy.
“How does being a doer, rather than a talker, stifle evolution? It will happen regardless of want.“
Where, or when, did I state that being a doer stifled evolution? Next, what is “it”? If it is “Darwins theory of the evolution of life”, simple and common observations prove this theory to be absolutely wrong. (https://principia-scientific.com/darwins-idea-evolution-about-the-origin-of-life-is-a-wrong-scientific-idea/)
I do believe in the very slow evolution of the physical universe which we see, as aided by our space telescopes and by what I read in the first few pages of The Holy Bible. Which slow evolution is consistent with our observed physical scientific principles and laws. However, I hadn’t yet alluded to this as I am still pondering how to simply and BRIEFLY do this.
Can you explain for FSI readers how to geometrically to divide a circle into 7ths with good precision? The evidence is our ancestors at Stonehenge did.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Howdy
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“Where, or when, did I state that being a doer stifled evolution?”
I believe where you stated:
“Humans have not evolved. Some only stopped debating and became doers..”
Am I misunderstanding you?
Divide a circle? anything I don’t know I’ll use the internet for, since it’s such a usefull tool.
Stonehenge, yes, and the Egyptians built the pyramids. The Dogons, with the knowledge of the moons of Sirius before telescopes found them. How could they know? The Nommo race of visiting aliens? Why would stonehenge be any different?
I’m intrigued how past peoples did these things, but that was before mankind had fallen so far and lost nearly all credibility in the eyes of the creator..
You don’t share my view on the creator, Jerry, but it is still the same entity you know.
Time is cyclical, and the next rotation of the wheel of humanity will be better, more refined, more evolved.
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Was waiting for Jerry, but in case anybody is intrigued by the mention of the Dogon people and Sirius (isis), I’ll post a couple of links. Within them you’ll find parallels to Egyptian Deities, as well as Jesus Christ, and what I’ve been ‘harping on’ about:
The Dogon, Sirius and Yurugu (The Gray Fox)
https://ammazulu.com/yurugu_1a.htm
The Dogon Tribe, The Nommo, and Their Fascinating Cosmic Knowledge
https://www.ancient-code.com/the-dogon-tribe-the-nommo-and-their-fascinating-cosmic-knowledge/
Moffin
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Well. I’ll be Dogoned.
Howdy
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Hi Moff,
Ah, your comment didn’t click at first sight. 😉
Moffin
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Yes. The Allan Parsons Project did a song called Sirius.
“I am the eye in the sky looking at you
I can read your mind.” etc.
Howdy
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Right. Not my scene I’m afraid.
George
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Howdy: Howdy I hope you’re not using the word evolve in the Darwinian sense, i.e. the perfectibility of man mumbo jumbo. Likewise, the nihilistic belief in change for the sake of change is nonsense. There must be a reason to overturn society. The two major categories are to enhance individual liberty and freedom, good, or to restrict it, bad. What’s your objective?
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Tom
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Leftism encourages taking from the state and not working to create any wealth for yourself. We have plenty of leftism/socialism around and that system is collapsing.
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