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    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.

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    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.

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    6 hours ago

    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.

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      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%.

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    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.

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        I wish you all the best that you can find someone to talk to about this

        What a way of saying, “the systemic societal misandry you observe is all in your imagination.” Sweet gaslighting, there.

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    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

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      Skills are not the solution. These guys have jobs. Someone will do those jobs.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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