[cheph]

> “About half of prime age men who are not in the labor force may have a serious health condition that is a barrier to working,”

Not sure why what Alan Krueger thinks may or may not be the case it is relevant to this discussion. I may be sure I may be able to find many economist that may think many different things may be the case. But unfortunately for Alan Krueger here, opinions about what the data may or may not be is not the same as the actual data about what is, regardless of who's opinion it is. I would have hoped someone taught them that in highschool or university but I guess they must have not had time in their busy schedule of critical race theory.

> pain, high medication costs

Check and check, every moment I sit at a chair is just slightly less pain than every moment of standing, still manage to put in a day's work somehow.

> potentially crippling drug abuse problem?

Had it, kicked it.