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.
  • RagingHungryPanda
    471·
    9 hours ago

    You’re all working class!!! If you rely on your work for your living, you’re working class. I get what they mean, but don’t forget that.

    • HyperlinkYourHeart@lemmy.ml
      9·
      8 hours ago

      The article addresses the fact that it’s a bad definition, but since it is discussing a study they have to work with the definition the study used.

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      8 hours ago

      interesting how we are all separated by the color of the collar around our necks.

      • Twitches
        6·
        7 hours ago

        The yoke around our necks determine our worth.

      • metaStatic@kbin.earth
        1·
        5 hours ago

        if you’re only 2 pay cheques away from homelessness in the c suite I can perform some very cost effective consultancy work for you.

        • BigPotato@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 hours ago

          I’m totally working class but I’ve got a year of float saved up or… Like fifteen days of cancer, so hoping those cells reproduce correctly!

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
    21·
    9 hours ago

    …and until it’s bad enough for massive strikes, it will continue.

    The left’s job is to make this feeling into “working class men are not okay but now have a functional protest movement seeking to end the wealth gap permanently”.

    The problem is Trump is funneling this issue/disenfranchisement towards the aims of the wealthy and those who want to increase the wealth gap permanently.