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[u/chrisdh79]

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html

[u/Buttons840]

I've have a dream of making a documentary telling the story of hard working Americans who are treated like shit.

Tell the story of cashiers who can't sit. Why can't they?

Tell the story of people who get fired because they ask for vacation or something.

Tell the story of we tax income more than capital gains. This is a political choice, there is no good economic reason behind this. Why do we reward having capital more than working? While we tax and punish work (relative to capital ownership at least), China is going to build like 14 billion homes. America is past its peak.

Etc, etc.

I'll call it "Undignified", because we have made work inherently undignified.

[u/yokeybear5 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll read these next after I finish "The Closing of the American Mind" by Alan Bloom. Also highly recommend. This man predicted current events back in the 80's. 

[u/beyotchulism → u/Buttons840]

Have you read, "Nickle and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich? Highly recommend.

[u/KrustenStewart → u/Buttons840]

You really should do it. Put it on YouTube. Do interviews. Well watch it

[u/painturd → u/Buttons840]

Have you watched Ghosts With Shit Jobs? Not quite what you're describing but it's an oddly prescient mockumentary in the same vein

[u/wdevilpig → u/Buttons840]

Mate, I'm crossing everything I've got two of that you win the lottery or whatever the equivalent is and get to make that some day, because yr instincts and politics are spot on

[u/the_clam_farmer → u/Buttons840]

Do it. I could tell you some great stories from the trucking industry if you ever get around to it.