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[quote=Anonymous]This thread was seriously hijacked. OP asked why there were fewer economically attractive men, but everyone is talking about why women want men to have high paying jobs, men don't help out, men prefer younger women, etc.

To answer OP's question, from what I have read "it's complicated." Labor force participation rates have been declining for men in the US since the 1960s. Interestingly, this is somewhat unique to the US. Labor force participation rates have not declined as precipitously in other advanced industrialized countries.

A number of theories have been floated by social scientists, I'll list a few I recall of the top of my head:

Decline of high-paying factory jobs due to deindustrialization and offshoring of manufacturing jobs.
Automation of high-paying blue collar jobs
Availability of disability payments
The availability of sex without having to get married--less incentive to get a good job, attract a wife so as to be able to have sex
The availability of high quality porn as a substitute for sex--less incentive to get a good job, attract a wife so as to be able to have sex
High quality video games as a substitute for romantic interactions.

Maybe all of these contribute. The end result is fewer men with higher paying jobs relative to decades earlier.

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