I hadn't thought about this possibility.

That population of men is probably a ripe audience for orange pilling. Bitcoin has been such a powerful starting point for people to build meaning for themselves and it opens so many paths for taking purposeful action.

Hard times do not make weak men Weak men create hard times

The fact that so many can find sustenance without working shows we are not actually in the hard times yet.

Hard times means millionaires in breadlines.

The painful symptoms of sickness are what removes the germ. Sometimes the best medicine for a society is a decade of hardship.

Microplastics in our balls has made us all pussies.

This may sound strange to you, but I kind of think that men failing to attract women (and giving up trying to attract them as a result of despair maybe) makes them way less ambitious. Being attractive to women is some very strong but overlooked motivation for men to better themselves. Maybe they think something like "I don't think I have any chance, so I won't even try. I will do the bare minimum for me to survive and that's it." (I am talking about heterosexual men here.)

What do you think about this idea?

The concept of free markets is based on the idea that we have an intrinsic idea of what something is worth. As the money printer has been helping the rich who use debt as leverage to gain control over more hard assets, it has wiped out the average persons saving. It has also wiped out the average persons earnings, they just don't quite know it yet. Even more so, it is impossible to maintain the same quality of life since you cannot earn more (ie. maintain the same quality of life) without bumping into higher tax brackets.

The average worker knows they are not getting enough value for the amount of work they are putting in. This is how the powers that be 'fight inflation'. They put pressure on companies to not increase wages, to not get competitive for workers, to not raise the salaries. The workers know there is something wrong. They can no longer afford the same quality of life. Yet, there is no job offering more income (the same purchasing power with a larger number on it that will get taxed at a higher rate.).

Normally, If you can't take them to war, its probably some big ass public infrastructure programs that get spun up, like drilling for new oil fields or building some other energy generation plant, or public network like roads or trains, but if you've already got that shit going pretty hard to justify printing to put people to work

I can see with flat wages why people just don't give a shit, the window to getting something out of the grind is smaller and smaller, I feel it too sometimes, and I'm sure if it wasn't for Bitcoin i'd be completely out of ideas on what to do to with the capital I generate and consume it on dumb things

We're seeing this manifest in loads of movements, the lie flat peeps in China, The lazy girl job trend on tiktok, the quiet quiting and minimum mondays no one really has an answer for it

Capital needs to flow from assets back to labour for it to reverse, how that happens, I don't know