> You put a guy in a chaotic and impoverished circumstances. And then you decide not to expect anything of him. How about not put them in chaotic and impoveri

> You put a guy in a chaotic and impoverished circumstances. And then you decide not to expect anything of him. How about not put them in chaotic and impoverished circumstances? Sweden does not have these problems at the scale the US has. Also after World War II, a working class guy could get a job at a factory in Detroit, and be able to afford his wife staying home to raise kids in a house he owned, commuting in a car he owned. Maybe going to school on the GI Bill at some point. All of this is gone. People like Charles Murray spent decades attacking the US working class, and now he bemoans that wage slaves are not interested in pursuing the Sisyphean tasks he has laid out. All of this is concurrent with the material destruction of working class life in the US, which is why the first thing Henderson has to try to knock out is it has anything to do with material conditions. It was a hell of a lot better to be a working class man in 1960 then 2005. Two thirds of union jobs are now nonunionized etc.