when nowh one in washington is thinking about and what we should all be thinking about is why is this happening in the first place. why are fewer people choosing to work?n and have been for a long time by the way. this is not a new trend. our labor markets have been getting sicker for generations. this is one measure. this shows the labor force participation rate of american men. it goes back to 1950. what do you notice, the line goes straight down. this is the labor force participation rate of women in america. that line moves in the opposite direction. as you can tell for 70 years we ve been losing men in the workforce. many call this progress on the assumption that anything is bad and degrading for men must be good for america but it is not progress. it s a problem. the average man defines himself by his job. men and women are very different, extremely different. society is builtlt on their differences.ly every society is in the thing about men as they kind of need to work. they ten