This is why they support workers rights and unionization of baristas and Amazon employees in large cities, but not welders or factory workers in rust belt towns. The “workers rights” stuff comes second to shared values
Also, to everyone saying “he’s so close to getting it”
No he isn’t. He’s about as far from getting it as one can be.
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Much attention has been given to how men are single later into life, how they aren’t having sex.
The lowering rate at which men have sex is a problem, but it’s also an indicator of a broader social problem that others have discussed.
The problem isn’t, in and of itself, that men are having sex at lower rates. The problem is *why* this is occurring. Hint: it’s not the death of the patriarchy. A coalescence of factors has led to all young people, but particularly men, being socially atomized and alienated.
A considerable number of young men don’t have a single friend. Of those that do, it’s often a childhood or college friend who now lives far away. Working 40+ hours a week, for wages that barely sustain, leaves little time to cultivate meaningful relationships with others.
A lot of time is spent discussing “the death of the American mall” on this website and in publicans but far more interesting to me is the transformation of the American mall. I still know of many malls—but they’re not the malls we remember from the 90s and early 2000s.
Malls today, those that are thriving today, are markedly different. Many are half indoor, half outdoor. They don’t have a GameStop, or a Spencer’s Gifts, or an FYE, or American Eagle, or Hollister, or PacSun. Hell, they don’t have Macy’s or JCPenney.
Instead, these malls have Saks, Bloomingdale’s, Gucci, Tiffany’s, Louis Vuitton. Their more accessible stores are Brooks Brothers, Tommy Bahama, Vineyard Vines. New brands like Psycho Bunny.