Working-Class Men Are Not Okay
Working-Class Men Are Not Okay
Working-class American men are getting lonelier and sicker and their lives are shortening. It’s not just a sad state of affairs. It’s a full-blown crisis that demands policy solutions.
The hard truth is nobody cares about men. Even men don't care about other men. We have a lack of compassion for men and the issues that impact them. It is difficult to convince people to empower a group they believe already empowered.
filtered masks on jobsites with particles is still not a hard requirement, pay is not keeping up with the cost of living, no universal healthcare
welcome to the US
Class warfare is real shit.
No we are not. 36, broke, lonely, and hopeless. Cant get a better paycheck without better education, cant get a date without a better paycheck, just getting older. Not a lot of reason to live, frankly. I feel useless. Im afraid it’ll kill me.
The only thing that carried me through rough times was a hobby where I regularly meet a group of people for sports. Then you live so you can go there again the next week.
This is how I've been feeling about mutual aid 🤘 now I'm helping two times a week
Basic income, nationalized health care, public housing, free education. Would solve a lot of problems.
Enforce existing tax laws. Increase penalties for cheating on taxes. Tax unrealized gains. Break up monopolies.
The problems facing work class men are mostly downstream from all of these things.
Massively punish wage theft, too.
Unfortunately working-class men are precisely the demographic most likely to adamantly vote against each and every one of those proposals.
Break up these “investment firms” whose only purpose seems to be to suck all the productivity for themselves, destroy the company, then move on to something else. They’re like the aliens from Independence Day, locusts.
Taxing unrealized gains is a terrible idea.
I think UBI and reskilling or upskilling programs with apprenticeship placements would help. I am not saying coding boot camps, I am saying more specialized stuff like electrical grid maintenance etc
Skills are not the solution. These guys have jobs. Someone will do those jobs.
Bring back the ccc. Give people purpose and support
ubi is only a bandaid to gross wealth accumulation by the rich.
Its rough out here. Every boss I've had in the past 10 years has minimized my labor, when I work my as off while he complains he's broke as he buys a Tesla and $2000 wheels and tires.
Working class people of all backgrounds wont be ok until the economy is owned those who produce the labor. Once the economic struggles are fixed the social struggles will naturally become historical.
We're ugly, and we smell bad.
living in my mom’s garage
USA can not and should not maintain the current level of extreme privilege (for pale people) while the planet is being destroyed. The state can not continue to subsidize car dependency, housing inflation, etc. People need to fight for clean air, clean water, food, housing, etc. instead of trucks and mcmansions. They need to reinvision what a functional society looks like because our current society is completely unsustainable and unjust. It's the only realistic future.
Your comment would be spot fucking on, if it wasn't for the "pale people" part. You're words imply allowing extreme privilege for non-pales. That aint gonna fix anything. Hopefully that's not what you intended.
Other than that, I agree with the rest 100%.