Millennial Men Leave Perplexing Hole in Hot U.S. Job Market
&gt; Men -- long America’s economically privileged gender<p>It depends on how you look at it.  Don&#x27;t get me wrong, men have had lots of privileges, but they have long been <i>expected</i> to work.  Those social expectations are rapidly disappearing, and somewhat shifting to women, and we&#x27;re seeing rates of depression and suicide rise for women in roughly the same time frame.  Calling it privileged is a very one-sided way of looking at it, as the &quot;privilege&quot; comes with lot of responsibility that quickly becomes burdensome.  With affordable home appliances, online services through your phone, video games, Netflix, and PornHub, the house wife&#x2F;husband is obsolete.  Why take on the same burdens your fathers did when little to none of that existed?<p>With wages being stagnant since the 1970s, the ridiculous housing market, the materialist debt-slave culture, the decline of marriage, and the decrease in sustainable jobs, why exactly should millennial(and increasingly Gen Z) men bother working as much as their fathers?  I come from a very wealthy area and only one of the dozens of men my age, with whom I grew up with, own what their fathers did when they were their age.  Millennial men are rife with disenfranchisement that flies under the radar because the economy has enough shit jobs to allow them to scrape by, and the media is generally not compassionate to the issues of men.  I mean, just look at this article which is clearly written as an underhanded criticism of young men.<p>Let me repeat the question in the last paragraph:<p><i>Why exactly should millennial men work as much as their fathers?</i>