“If the increasing wage gap between high and low earners directly or indirectly affects men’s aggregate labor supply, wage inequality might have carried wider implications to the economy than previously believed,” Wu wrote.
https://fortune.com/2022/12/07/men-dropping-out-work-force-status-study/
Either that or they'll go deal drugs or something. Dropping out of the workforce in the economic sense leaves a lot of possibilities in the informal or dark economy.
Not good possibilities, but evidently not as bad as just grinding your body into dust.