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I would contend it is the job market and how it is increasing more like slave labor where you are laid off because... Checks notes... Your wife was in the hospital too often.

“Personal responsibility” has always been an excuse for white men to be cruel. It’s magically evaporates whenever it applies to them and something they don’t want to do. (This is me, bitter about my dad)

But I think a fundamental issue here is that many jobs offer a pittance. Work 80 hours a week, still not able to afford rent? The only people who would take this are the immigrants for whom those wages are much more meaningful back home. Incel culture doesn’t help though.

"People who has 'being in a shit situastion in a shit time with the alternative being a job that doesn't actually pay enough to live in a time where one of the largest employers refuse you wee breaks choose escapism and this is the escapisms fault" There, I translated for you

As far as I can tell this article is at best a hypothesis and is not based in any definitive studies. The data points they cite are real, the argument about causation—whether access to digital entertainment causes men to choose unemployment is specious at best