Men make money to survive this cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape.
Women make money to survive this cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape.
Men make money to survive this cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape.
Women make money to survive this cyberpunk dystopian capitalist hellscape.
I'm sure it's true for some women. But I wouldn't be surprised if most working women were either married or in a committed relationship. Plus, a lot of households have two incomes out of necessity. Both partners need to work full time just to make ends meet.
I make money to eat and buy books.
Plenty of men work overtime so they don’t have to go back to their wife or gf
One of my friends is going through a divorce and one of the reasons his wife gave us is that he would sit in his car in the driveway and look at his phone for a bit when he got home. There are other reasons but that one stuck out to me.
Yeah. That's my personal indicator that there's something wrong with my work setup; avoiding doing the thing that leads to the unpleasant parts. I guarantee he started hiding in his car after the relationship issues began.
Think there's some nuance needed. Occasionally ppl need some some time to decompress. Im positive a lot of ppl sit in their car after work to avoid their spouse but others just want sometime to themselves. Ive done that being single and having roommates i actually like. Plus sometimes I was too lazy to get out of the car
Yeah, I get it. When I get home I don't want to talk to ANYONE I don't care if I like them or not. Just need a fucking minute to myself to decompress and switch gears. I can't speak much to his situation but knowing her and seeing how she greeted him at the door with shit when I was over there on more than one occasion I could see why he'd want to take a second before walking into that.
That was all the salesmen at one place I worked. Mormons with tons of kids. They'd go anywhere in the world to get away from them.
To be fair, parenting is a pretty shitty gig. Expectations are high and support is low. People judge everything you do, especially those who have never done it themselves. Even with good kids its a thankless slog most of the time. God help you if you get a hard one.
This is also why people should seriously think about if they are ready to have a kid or want to have a kid.
Millions or tens/hundreds of millions of kids have parents that never really wanted them and just gave in to the biological clock and/or social pressures and the kids have a shitty childhood. It sucks to be unwanted, and kids can really feel it.
In the early nineties I knew a Mormon man with a happy housewife & 10 kids and he would run a marathon by himself every day just to be out of the house.
Yeah they are called boomers
Nope. It's a trans-generational ploy since time immemorial. The worst ones are the bosses who ask you to stay so they don't have to go home, but it can happen to anyone.
Yeah but who are the bosses currently mainly from? Exactly, boomers. Also, younger generations rather tend to break up instead of enduring a bad relationship/marriage.
you know, i've always been wondering about whether that is secretly a covert plan of the wife so the husband works longer hours, makes more money and makes the family richer. i'd seriously not put that past some people i've met in my life ...
I make money to be with cats.
Us men are working to not end up on the streets and dying of exposure or at the baton of a bootlicker.
I make money to afford ddr5.
Is this a shitpost?
I swear memes like these seem like a psyops to keep us at each others throats
Na, a self-secure person can take a joke while acknowledging the truth in it.
It's true. Us humans clearly only harm each-other, so let's keep a distance, ok?
Why is it any more okay to create conflict with less secure people?
Insecure about what?
No idea. You should ask raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world about that.
Am I too insecure to acknowledge the truth? Or maybe it just doesn't have any truth to it.
I agree it's hard to know what's part of divide and conquer political psyops and whether that was the intention or not of the person that created the original content.
I personally scrolled by this and read it as a debate about feminism in its most basic sense (equality for all) vs conservative traditionalism and patriarchy (heirarchy based control). Not as an attack on men, or to exclude anyone who doesn't fall into the heteronormative categories which exist as a consequence of the protected heirarchies demanded by conservative traditionalism and patriarchy.
Like the propaganda behind conservative traditionalism has always relied on convincing people that all of modern society's problems are simply due to moving further away from the traditional values of the past. It's circular logic that offers easy and appealing solutions to those being targeted with propaganda by using a scapegoat and relying on supporters to either remain unaware of, or, to intentionally ignore the very obvious problems caused by the conservative heirarchies ("values") that the traditionalist movement seeks to preserve and strengthen.
For example, addressing the declining standard of living with each successive generation, lack of affordable housing, affordable education, and job opportunities in the United States. Traditional conservativism often targets young men by offering them easy solutions to the issues by claiming they were caused by the feminist and civil rights movements that moved American society away from the traditional values (heirarchies) that were already in place.
According to the modern right, the DEI practices that arose from those movements mean all the resources which were previously available for young men to build the American dream, are now unavailable because of DEI. Modern society has redistributed all available resources and handed them to women and minorities, while young (white) men have been forgotten and left behind. Essentially, the movements towards equality have upset the natural order of things, and until that order is restored, there will be no way to fix the problems of modern society. How do you fix the problem? Simple, remove equality.
It's certainly true that opportunity, housing, affordability, and standard of living have all noticably declined in the U.S over the last 50 years, so the argument that the lack of available resources in the U.S. in 2026 can be traced to and blamed on the most salient social movements 50 years prior (1970's), is a deceptive but easy conclusion to lead people to out of context. It simply requires you have some prior knowledge of the history and culture of the decade, without acknowledging what was simultaneously happening in the background of the U.S. in response to those movements.
Blaming social equality movements and toppling of established heirarchies, very intentionally ignores the fact that since the 1970's wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the 1%. It also ignores the fact that the 1970's marks the establishment of the first U.S. conservative think tanks (Heritage Foundation, Free Congress Foundation), which were funded by billionaires, and created in direct response to fighting the civil rights movement by establishing political influence and promoting conservative economic and social policies, which both ultimately favor the economic inequality that continues to dominate America in 2026.
Tldr: To restore and preserve the conservative natural order and heirarchy, the policies promoted are always backed by a call to return to traditional values that require division by default.
The traditionalist movement argues a woman's place is in the home, supported by a hardworking man. While equality based movements would argue a woman's place, (like any autonomous human being, regardless of class, race, or other identity like male, female, cis, trans, NB etc.), is wherever they want it to be. Whether that's at home, working, single, married, straight, queer, kids, no kids etc. It promotes equal choice for the individual rather than demanding conformity. The entire point is that there are no pre-established roles set out for her or anybody else.
An equal society means opportunities and resources are available to everyone who chooses to pursue them, rather than kept locked away under the control of a small but heavily insulated and protected 1%, who then decide how to divide up whatever meager resources they're willing to allow the other 99% to share and fight over for their own survival.
Edit: It's one thing to fall for propaganda because you don't know what's going on in the shadows. That's been a very intentional strategy of the attack on democracy for the last 50+ years. However, it's hard to imagine having that evidence presented to you, and intentionally choosing to be a willing cuck for the top 1% of the country. And yet ...
Since 1975, nearly $80 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.
•Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaire$ Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
The wealthy have always had disproportionate political influence in society, the United States of America included. In Dark Money, Jane Mayer presents a compelling account of how wealthy ultraconservative business leaders organized themselves over the past several decades to impose their political ideologies of anarchism on the rest of the nation.
Part One focuses on the period from 1970 to 2008, when philanthropy was co-opted as a key participant in the war of political ideas and the free-market political machine, the Kochtopus, was assembled.
•God, Trump and the Closed-Door World of a Major Conservative Group
•Rand corporation 2023: Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023
•Wealth Of The 1% Reaches Decade High In The U.S.
The share of wealth owned by the 1% of richest people in the United States has reached a new record of 31.7% in the third quarter of 2025

Don't forget to say thank you.
How the fuck does your TLDR start less than halfway through your post?
Variation on the joke.
Parents of a high school age boy and girl have a photo on the living room wall.
It's a picture of a fat, bald old man in a Speedo standing on a yacht with a pretty girl hugging him.
"It's to inspire our kids to stay in school and get good grades. We want our son to try and be like the man, and our daughter not to be like the woman who is with him."
sad
People will always need each other. Money doesn't change that. People need affection and intimacy. This culture war shit keeps us filtering the world though the "safety" of their apps instead of actually connecting with each other, which is why we're all so fucking miserable imo.
No, no — now repeat after me:
Men are bad.
Unless you're a man at which point:
Women are bad.
I hope I helped.
This reads like the "manspreading" video that Russia put out to get us to hate each other.
I make money to care for my son.
And buy music.
Supporting the music industry is a felony.
You can buy music from places like bandcamp to support the artists directly ¯\(ツ)/¯
Yeah I'm short as fuck and socially inept. They're certainly not going to date me because I'm attractive.
Like how short we are talking?
You just have to get older. I have it on good authority that the law of supply and demand turn things around - men can be old enough to have made money while still being able to date women young enough to not have made money (and no, we’re not Epstein related)
I make money so I stop drowning for another week or so before my head is plugged back under the icy depths
As a gay man I can whole heartedly tell you only women think men make money just to get women. Plus if a woman is attracted to a guy just because of wealth then that’s a doomed relationship, now go sip your tea
They forgot about the gays. Again.
TIL my wife is a man
Congrats on being a trans ally???
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