These particular women were running a makeup company. Women's products. For centuries now there have been parallel industries of products for women, by women.
And that's fine. If they want to dance around for TikTok, I don't mind it.
The problem is that this created the perception -- not entirely incorrect -- that women in more serious industries, doing work for major software companies or working in support roles for industry, commerce and infrastructure, were doing "fake email jobs" that included little actual production.
What we've learned is that a substantial share of our economy is unnecessary administrative overhead. Relatively useless people doing useless busywork. "As-per-my-last-email's" and time-wasting zoom calls full of brain-frying buzzword salads.
Elon Musk buys Twitter, lays off 80% of personnel, and still has a working website. What were those 80% doing? Well, it probably looked something like this: Tiktok-dancing women doing fake email jobs and having buzzword sessions over Zoom.
Men who work with their hands, who make a third of the money that these over-educated and over-socialized women were making, naturally resent the entire economic paradigm that led us to this condition.
I think we really are at the "burn it all down" stage.
How loyal do you feel? Do you love the status quo? Do you want this country to burn in cleansing fire, or do you want it to keep going as it is?
Are you satisfied with the idea of slowly, MAYBE evolving toward more sensible government and more productive and merit-based business practices? Or would you rather see it all crash down, and try to rebuild something better from the rubble?
If you're building calluses on your hands making less than $40k per year, I think I know your answer.
@seraleev That's what the trial is for. Tbh believing an app where the paywall constantly pops up and the user simply gets tired of closing it somehow provides a better experience is a bit of wishful thinking.