"If you Thanos snapped the top 2% of society out of existence, every company, country, and system along with civilization as we know it would collapse within weeks. If you did the same thing to the bottom 2% nothing would change, if anything average daily life would improve."
Sarah doesn’t understand Brad wasn’t just sitting on the couch.
Brad applied to hundreds of jobs in Bentonville. He made it through round after round of interviews and still didn’t get hired. He’s sitting on $40,000 in debt for the education he was told would give him a future.
Meanwhile, the biggest employer in Bentonville is laying off and reorganizing corporate workers while continuing to file thousands of H-1B labor applications.
Maybe the story isn’t as simple as “young American man is lazy and refuses to work.”
Young white guy here. 22% of my income gets stolen from me every year to give welfare to boomers that hate me and foreigners that hate me.
I have not been the beneficiary of a federal or state welfare scheme my entire life. I am not alone. Why am I the villain?
White Men in U.S. Population ~29.4% of all Americans
White Males Receiving Welfare ~1.9% of all Americans
They are the most underrepresented group in the data
This one blew my mind. The Harriet Tubman story, which is taught as a foundational tale of American history to kids, was almost entirely made up by a Jewish communist journalist who worked at a black nationalist newspaper in the 1940’s.