The system is failing even for those well positioned to ride the success of (but not hold stake in) the general market. The first upper-middle class runners are coming across the line to find nothing there. How does that effect the tipping point? Is this a marker of a Late Stage?
Does anyone even subscribe to the American Dream anymore? Maybe there isn’t a big pack running behind these first place white men to find a cliff at the finish line.
Is it the last remnants of an experiment burning out, or is it just the first car to crest the rollercoaster?
Or is the suicide stat meaningless and the power structure still favors inherited white male privilege so significantly that it’s dumb to grasp at minor perceived cracks forming? If this then what’s the stat about?
White Americans have no community and barely have a nuclear family let alone any extended family connections. That's why this is happening. Until very recently you where expected to get the fuck out of the house you where raised in by 18. You where expected to live alone till you found a partner. And than you where expected to raise the child by your selfs with the grand parents dropping in once in awhile to spoil the baby talk shit about your partner etc offer little to no help than leave.
White Americans are not set up to survive with out the whole system working in their favor. So it's going to be very rough for many of us.
Is that really true? I grew up working class in the UK and it was all about big families, grandparents looking after us kids after school before the parents finished work, etc.
Yes this is what it is to be a white American.
Fair enough, didn’t realise it was such a different experience. I wonder why.
Puratain rugged individualism. A nation formed from people that left their families and homeland to start a new else where. Individualistic capitalism.
Seems like it became the norm post ww2. No need for community or family when everyone is on the up and up.
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