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I can't remember where I heard it but some podcaster or youtuber pointed out that it's never been easier to have an alpha masculine job. In the past, you might be born into a class that meant you pretty much had to farm, but now anyone can join the police or the military, and yet a lot of these guys that are super concerned about the death of masculinity are not doing that.
Anyone who thinks farming is soft or feminine is ignorant.
It was in fact the movement from plows and lathes to keyboards and screens that have created entire industries for men to express their masculinity in their free time. Men who load 16 tons of coal don't go to the gym.
Farmer isn't "Alpha Male" because farmer isn't the sort of career path that gives you power over others.
That's what these people actually want. Power over others. Or status over others if that's all they can get, even nonsense racial supremacy bull shit.
Farmers are pretty powerful, you ever tried living without relying on them?
the point is more that no one is forcing these guys to become software engineers and go to the gym in their free time. They can do whatever they want for a living. But they don't.
Yeah, and what do they get?
Another year older and deeper in debt.
They get younger and have more money