The stories are great, but the segment of white young men that are not doing well is not children of the surly 1%ers.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s the middle class guys with middling or worse grades and zero drive to do anything that doesn’t involve being alone on a screen.
In the past, the workforce just needed lots of bodies and the good ole boy network would take care of you, to a certain extent. Women taking so many office jobs that aren’t clerical means fewer of those guys just are needed.
Add in that they’re a special snowflake, and lack of talent, smarts or motivation doesn’t = loser it means conspiracy(!), so they act accordingly.
A sad truth of humanity is there will always be marginalized groups. You can’t demarginalize loser young men without returning to the repression of other groups. If the world was truly out to get them, I’d feel sorry for them. It isn’t, they just don’t look in the mirror when assessing their shitty situations. DEI is to blame, not those Cs and Ds they got in high school.
I’m sure some upper middle class boys are seduced by being alone in their room, too. But there have always been black sheep. The numbers come from the paycheck-to-paycheck households.