Michael, I left a similar note in the chat section: In case you haven’t seen it, think this essay in The Washington Monthly provides are great deal of support for your ‘stakeholder’ capitalism thesis!
Wages are not the only thing that determines perceived status. Nationalism, identarianism, morality, and hobbies all can as well. Democrat pitch is "we will screw you, but we are better than you" while MAGA is "we will screw you, but we are the same as you". Means democrats have a more motivated donors and activist base, since they get to feel morally superior, but lost some attraction from general population voters.
I don't think your prescribed policies would accomplish what you want. A more feasible route is to improve the provisioning of status goods - for instance removing taxes on luxury, encouraging social clubs, and removing subsidies for low status industries.
I fail to see removing how removing taxes on luxury and removing subsidies for low status industries would boost the status of men in the bottom two income quintiles where more than half of working class men reside. The first seems irrelevant and the second would depress their wages still further making them even less suitable as marriage partners.
What is you thinking on why this should work? Do you fall into that category (no college and earn less than $43K) and speak from personal experience?
Michael, I left a similar note in the chat section: In case you haven’t seen it, think this essay in The Washington Monthly provides are great deal of support for your ‘stakeholder’ capitalism thesis!
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/01/the-secret-to-reindustrializing-america-is-not-tax-cuts-and-tariffs-its-regulated-competition/
Wages are not the only thing that determines perceived status. Nationalism, identarianism, morality, and hobbies all can as well. Democrat pitch is "we will screw you, but we are better than you" while MAGA is "we will screw you, but we are the same as you". Means democrats have a more motivated donors and activist base, since they get to feel morally superior, but lost some attraction from general population voters.
I don't think your prescribed policies would accomplish what you want. A more feasible route is to improve the provisioning of status goods - for instance removing taxes on luxury, encouraging social clubs, and removing subsidies for low status industries.
I fail to see removing how removing taxes on luxury and removing subsidies for low status industries would boost the status of men in the bottom two income quintiles where more than half of working class men reside. The first seems irrelevant and the second would depress their wages still further making them even less suitable as marriage partners.
What is you thinking on why this should work? Do you fall into that category (no college and earn less than $43K) and speak from personal experience?
The Party That Cannot Tell You What A Woman is, Mad Men Will Not Vote For Them. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/the-party-that-cannot-tell-you-what