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This article from a Wall Street magazine, hand wrings about how the Boomers finally leaving the workplace en masse is going to cause a labor shortage and a windfall for Gen Z.
This mass exodus from the workforce was supposed to happen 30 fucking years ago. But because of Boomers' staggering avarice and selfishness Boomers clung onto their jobs, homes and positions of authority as long as they absolutely could and now that even the very youngest of them are in their 60's, death, illness and just becoming outdated and unable to adapt to productivity increases with tools like AI, are forcing them out of the market.
The incel phenomenon is a purely economic issue. Now with 3rd wave feminism allowing women to earn a sustainable wage independently, men go from being a necessity to survive to a huge liability if they're not bringing something beyond a meager wage to the table.
And many men simply don't have anything to offer a partner than a wage. They're not handsome, refined, monied, and increasing not white (which in a de facto apartheid society does make a difference).
The labor glut created by the boomers that the boomers were themselves spared the effects of, created a huge underclass of young men that had to complete with entrenched boomers that built their political power during the greatest economic expansion in modern history.
Then the Boomers, with nothing else to do, stayed in the labor market 30 years longer than they were expected, creating a huge back pressure of labor demand that will be uncorked all at once in the next few years.
Incels are the complete product of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism that was built on the seemingly endless labor supply provided by the baby boomer population. Neoliberals are the brats of the post WWII explosion of in the rate of profit that the utter destruction of European capital in WWII caused. And these neoliberals thought that good times would last forever and did zero contingency planning.
Many Gen X'ers, Millennials, and Gen Z'ers comment on how 'good' the Boomers had it. Once this labor shortage starts in earnest, it will make those good times look quaint in comparison.
Younger generations are far and away more educated than Boomers are. Boomers actually had issues graduating high school, and the ones that did have something closer to a middle school level of education. That's why Boomer leaders like Trump, talk like a 12 year old.
In contrast Millennial and Gen Z have some of the highest rates of college degree completion rates ever recorded. And even the ones that never attended have higher reading and writing comprehension skills than boomers. Entire industries like social media, have been built on the fact that Millennials and Gen Z are articulate to a degree older generations never approached, contrary to all the bashing these young people endure.
It's literally a fact that if you walk into any university class today, that the students sitting there have the highest autism score of anyone that has every sat there in that university's history on average.
This gives Gen Z and Millennials a unique relationship to the means of production. Anyone can turn a wrench on a production line like Boomers did in the past, but highly education workers are not interchangeable. Not even between fields, you cannot replace a Hydraulic engineer with a Marketing major even if both of them have Master's degrees.
This will exponentially compound the leverage these younger workers have. There will be no huge Boomer pool of workers who bought a house in the 1980's for a fraction of what a home goes for now, that can comfortably tolerate suppressed wages decade after decade.
This will create a plethora of high wage earning men. Men that will be able to provide a lifestyle that will supersede any real or imagined golden age that preceded it like the 1950's. This will make them the most eligible bachelors in the world. People will be gobsmacked at the standards women have now. Think about it, so what if you're husband is a little ugly, when he provides a lifestyle that only a lawyer or doctor can now. Would you turn your nose up at that because someone's teeth are a little crooked?
Ironically, the boomers that yelled at 'incels' for being lazy and losers are the root cause of said incels. Once they're gone, so too will the incels.
It'll be interesting to see how Gen Z and Millennials use this new found economic power. Will they use it to seek revenge on Boomers? I think they will
Also it will be interesting to see how all these 'incels' react to suddenly being desired. I think they will feel betrayed and not date any of their fellow Western women. You'll see an explosion of passport bros that far outstrips the numbers we see today.
The deities of material forces have spoken. We will all ascend leftcel brothers, it is…inevitable.