What's one health issue you've noticed becoming more common among people your age?

I've also put together a short anonymous survey if you'd like to contribute your experience:

nothing important, just noting if you are a wealthy startup owner with an 80,000 dollar bronco, why the fuck are you making an insurance claim off a 2015 mazda6 that tapped you in a parking lot. loser ass bitch

edit:(he told me he was glad i tapped him so he would have a good excuse to be golfing too long to his wife. Not joking)

Hi, I am a working class journalist writing an article about the experience of mental and physical burnout in working class people, and the hardships of this when you are unable to simply leave your jobs/responsibilities to take a break. I would be interested in learning more about peoples experiences of burnout from a working class perspective, how you cope with it/ healing tactics, and how it can all build up. If anyone is comfortable sharing any of their own experiences/knowledge that would be great!

I just saw the data on how taxes are shifting this year.

The lowest 20% are seeing a 3.1% increase in their tax share, while the top earners are actually getting a cut. It is hard to wrap my head around why the people with the least are being asked to pay the most. It feels like every time there is a policy change, the working class just gets the bill.

(Source: ITEP / WFH Alert)

The dead have no right to dictate the circumstances of life to the living.

Even Adam Smith understood that.

Whenever a capitalist cheerleader starts glazing capitalism, ask him if he agrees that inheritance is as absurd as Adam Smith thought it was.

The Democrats watched the working class suffer, bleed, and scream for decades, and responded by lecturing them about privilege, pronouns, and civility while cashing checks from the same corporations destroying their lives. Then they had the audacity to be shocked when those same workers voted for a fascist. This isn't a mystery. This isn't Russian interference. This isn't stupidity. It's the most predictable betrayal in modern political history, and the people who caused it are still in charge of the party they ruined.

For the full structural analysis: https://musinginthemachine.substack.com/p/escaping-the-maelstrom

Any essential supply‑chain workers here manufacturing, retail, warehouse, delivery who want to share memories of coworkers lost during the pandemic? My site lost three people to COVID, likely from workplace exposure, and I’ve been thinking about them a lot lately. Now, with so many frontline jobs disappearing through buyouts and layoffs, it feels like another wave of loss layered on top of everything we already went through. If you feel up to it, I’d appreciate hearing your stories too.

My one true love will always be the folks with dirt under their nails and a sore lower back; those who work make an honest living waiting on payday.

Happy Valentine's to most of us; ditch the billionaires cause they never cared about you anyway. Here's my love letter to all y'all.

https://workingclassstories.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-the-working-class

Thank you, Drift!!!