and this is the issue, there is no economic health or people countryside. he chooses this? jesse: there is literally a toxic train wreck. dana: legal aid. jesse: there is nothing lamer than toxic masculinity. men are not toxic, society is toxic and look what you have done to us. you take away our guns and you say our trucks are killing the environment. all of the jobs you sent to china. then you bring in all of latin america to do the rest. then you push us into cubicles where we are not allowed to date our colleagues and can t crack jokes with our colleagues or else get hold hold into a chore. if you want to be a police officer we are called a racist. a coal miner or keystone pipeline or, they will cancel your job. they mock you on tv. they tear down our statues and they say meat is bad for us. if you lift weights, you are
lot it is older people who stopped working during covid and decided to retire earlier than normal patterns would suggest. so i think that is the largest part of it. beyond that, i think there is definitely a kind of grand reassessment going on after covid about how hard people want to work and how much they want to work and how much they want to be part of hierarchies. you don t get to be a ceo if you don t love being in the office. and so ceo s want all of their people to come back and be working. but lots of people like their dens better than they like their cubicles, and for those people they re going to decide to work intermittently, and not work as many hours, in some cases to leave working to their partners.