https://www.salon.com/2022/11/06/why-are-so-many-young-people-are-having-less-and-fewer-friendships/
[F]ar-right figures [...] have painted this phenomenon as a crisis of masculinity (even though under-35 women seem to having equally little sex).
Nearly 60 years ago, C. Wright Mills encouraged that we understand this kind of aggregated social data not as the result of personal failings, but as public issues that can be explained by looking to larger historical and structural relationships. When we look at other data points like the graph below, we find that it is not merely sexual relationships that are on the decline, but also friendships. This, from a sociological standpoint, reveals that there is something larger going on here. Untangling it means we must look at the at the larger economic, cultural, and political changes.
[A] bleak outlook brought on by economic conditions, changing social norms as a result of new communications technologies, and just simply feeling as though one doesn't have enough time to invest in their personal relationships. Thus, if we really do see this as a serious issue, then we need to make changes at a variety of levels.
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A date costs $40 minimum, and that is a matinee with 2 tall boys each.
When I was finishing up my undergrad in the mid aughts $40 would buy two tickets to a punk show and some decent pints.
The cheapest punk show that I've seen near me in ages was $25 a ticket. I feel sorry for folks who will grow old alone because of this.
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Apparently somewhere between 40-50% of all small businesses in the US were unable to pay rent last month. So I'm not sure that the middle class and the rich can even keep things running anymore.
source? what could the actual effects of this be? I don't see 50% of small business being closed down as we speak
That's MGTOW, not pickup artist. Pick up artists, MGTOWS, and Red Pillers and MRAs all started on the same path but took different forks in the road. They all acknowledge the societal dissonance between what society says a man should be, and what a man needs to be. Pick up artists see the dissonance and become what is really successful with women and not what society says they should be to be successful (to the extreme). MGTOWs see it and remove themselves from the equation because they don't see a way to win. Red Pillers were men that society said they should be, but got tired of never seeing the promised success that was supposed to come from that, so they work to become the ideal man that succeeds. MRAs seek to change the system so that it actually returns on its promises of equality.
MRAs seek to change the system, Red Pillers and Pick up Artists adapt to the system in place in their own ways to succeed, and MGTOWs rage quit the whole thing.
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It is PUAs who are the new phenomenon. Incels have always existed. The internet enabled all these men to get together and start exchanging ideas which led to the PUA "movement". Loser men who can't get laid have been with us since the dawn of time.
It's absolutely soul-destroying that capitalism has won so hard that even that is essentially an impossibility at this point. I honestly think Capitalism has won (even if that victory ensures human extinction), if young people's attention is still too captured and are unable to even imagine any counter movement at this point in time, what hope will there ever be?
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Can you even get a meal and a drink for 20$? Certainly not in urban Minneapolis, at least not anywhere that serves alcohol and food.
$6-8 for a solo burger here anywhere 5+ miles out of downtown or near the airports at happy hour. Fries are $5+, because of our local shit summer season for potatoes - usually $3-4.
$3-4 a tall boy.
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The US is also cheating because of the Mississippi River basin the largest uninterrupted area of agricultural land in the world.
Food in the US because of massive labor repression in restaurants is also cheaper. Half of American waiters make ~$2.50 + tips.
Im toronto the takeout places the are like $12 entree +$5 side. Actual sitdown restaurants for under $30 per person is basically impossible. Even going to fucking mcdicks for less than $10 is becoming impossible. All of this before the $4 cans of piss. It's insane
I wish people would just hang out or go for a walk instead of mandatory DiNnEr dAtEs or getting drunk
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