The Way Forward

Whether rightly or wrongly, working class people in their twenties and thirties feel helpless and hopeless about their prospects, particularly economic progress and social mobility. I especially recall a conversation I overheard among a group of young men in Arizona last spring. They were agonizing about voting for Trump, but all agreed that dems had disappointed them to the point of being non-starters (Biden was still the dem candidate at the time). They were particularly angry about stagnant wages, and none of them being able to afford living alone or with a partner despite working full time+. My first thought was like "kids these days cannot manage their expectations," but honestly-- I moved out of my parent's house in my mid-teens, and lived alone or provided a home for my family by my early twenties. I was a high school dropout with a silver tongue but not much actual work experience. It was tough, but I wonder if I could do it at all today?