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My grandpappy got to work in the mines with a high school education! He got paid well, he could raise a family, and he only died from black lung at 43! I deserve to work a shit job for lower wages than I deserve to be able to pretend I'm getting a good deal out of society like my grandpappy pretended until he croaked! That's when grandma got to stop pretending, too, and she married her neighbor Ruth. Fucking women ruining men's lives and killing them young with black lung is the real issue!

Or something like that. A big big part of it seems to be genuinely a deep resentment for anyone educated and skilled, and a feeling of being deserving of a certain quality of life while not contributing much... which is wild because like... How do they not see that everyone deserves a decent quality of life even if they don't have a great education? Because they can't feel positive about their quality of life if they're not lording it over someone who has it worse than them? It feels like all these things that they rail against like higher minimum wage and unions and whatnot all would give them what they want but they're somehow too fuckstupid to put it together. It's such a deeply fucking broken way to live, and it must be really lonely.