{"id":1744448,"date":"2022-11-18T19:48:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T00:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1744448"},"modified":"2022-11-18T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T00:48:44","slug":"mike-rowe-sounds-the-alarm-on-men-not-wanting-to-work-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-rowe-sounds-the-alarm-on-men-not-wanting-to-work-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Rowe Sounds The Alarm On Men Not Wanting To Work Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-rowe-sounds-the-alarm-on-men-not-wanting-to-work-anymore%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1744448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mike-rowe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Rowe<\/a> told Fox News this weekend that men are becoming soft and lazy in part due to how much time they are spending on screens instead of working.<\/p>\n<p>Rowe made the remarks during a brief interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson during the network\u2019s \u201cPatriot Awards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I\u2019m wrong about as much as I am right. And it\u2019s for that reason, I hate to say, \u2018I told you so,\u2019 out loud, ever,\u201d Rowe said. \u201cBut for 15 years, my foundation has been talking about this slow, sort of, unraveling of what we loosely call work ethic, whatever that means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I mean, last week, there was an article in The New York Times called something like how to combat the assault on modern work, and I thought it was gonna be an article about coal miners or crab fishermen or, you know, big tough jobs where the danger is real. It wasn\u2019t. It was an article about everything from paper cuts to the non-existent pet bereavement policies that are being deemed harsh, I\u2019m not making it up,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd so we are, we\u2019re in a place where 7 million able-bodied men are not only not working between the ages of 25 and [inaudible]. 7 million able-bodied men are not only not working, they\u2019re affirmatively not looking for a job. That\u2019s never happened in peacetime, ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowe said that people are focusing on the wrong thing by looking at the unemployment rate when they should be looking at the number of able-bodied people who do not want to work.<\/p>\n<p>Rowe said that an economist he spoke to told him the thing that those men are doing is spending \u201con average, over 2,000 hours a year on screens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: Well, not a lot of people are working right now in the United States. And that\u2019s a big change. That\u2019s why maybe you have to use the drive thru because no one\u2019s inside the restaurant. But not only is the way we work changing, our attitudes toward work are changing, and a lot of people seem to have contempt for work all of the sudden, signs are everywhere, you probably noticed them. Mike Rowe has spent a life thinking about work. He\u2019s host of \u2018How America Works\u2019 on Fox Business Network. He joins us on the set of the Patriot Awards, of course, for a long time, the immortal host of \u201cDirty Jobs,\u201d and I think our most frequent and popular guest. Anyway, thank you so much for coming back. Obviously you have noticed the change in attitude toward work, some people sort of mocking the idea of work, what\u2019s your response to that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MIKE ROWE: Yes. So, I\u2019m wrong about as much as I am right. And it\u2019s for that reason, I hate to say, \u2018I told you so,\u2019 out loud, ever. But for 15 years, my foundation has been talking about this slow sort of unraveling of what we loosely call work ethic, whatever that means. And now between Nick Eberstadt\u2019s work, an economist who\u2019s really drilled down on it. And I mean, last week, there was an article in The New York Times called something like how to combat the assault on modern work, and I thought it was gonna be an article about coal miners or crab fishermen or, you know, big tough jobs where the danger is real. It wasn\u2019t. It was an article about everything from paper cuts to the non existent pet bereavement policies that are being deemed harsh, I\u2019m not making it up. And so we are, we\u2019re in a place where 7 million able bodied men are not only not working between the ages of 25 and [inaudible]. 7 million able bodied men are not only not working, they\u2019re affirmatively not looking for a job. That\u2019s never happened in peacetime, ever. And economists like Nick Eberstadt take a dim view of it, they\u2019re worried. And they\u2019re trying to inject that into the conversation at a time when we\u2019re still looking at the unemployment number as the true harbinger of what\u2019s really going on, but it\u2019s not. In his view, it\u2019s a depression era artifact, we\u2019re just looking at the wrong thing, we\u2019re looking at not what it means to have a bunch of people unemployed, but what does it mean, to have a bunch of opportunity that nobody gives a damn about? That\u2019s a different conversation. And it\u2019s complicated to have, because while that dynamic is clear and present, so too, is the fact that a lot of big companies in Silicon Valley are going to lay off a lot of people. And now you\u2019re gonna have a bunch of people who aren\u2019t trained for the jobs that do exist, sort of competing with people who have affirmatively taken themselves out of the workforce<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Rowe told Fox News this weekend that men are becoming soft and lazy in part due to how much time they are spending on screens instead of working. Rowe made the remarks during a brief interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson during the network\u2019s \u201cPatriot Awards.\u201d \u201cSo, I\u2019m wrong about as much as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1744451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1744451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}