RickyDiBiase
aka Hash Brown Hands
Watching that video, I noticed three major things:
1. It ignores that main driver of U.S. deindustrialization - which was large companies colluding and taking their jobs overseas to exploit cheaper labor abroad - they touched on it, but did not put the blame squarely where it belonged: the titans of industry.
2. I think there should be much more research into the unhealthy group of men who aren't working: it is easily dismissed, but nearly all of the perpetually unemployed men I know (only a few) are dealing with fairly serious mental health issues - bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and PTSD.
3. Para-employment like Uber, Lyft, grocery and food delivery as well as illicit activity - drug sales and scamming - are one of the ways that a chunk of these unemployed men are able to maintain some income.
Also: the man speaking in the video, is from the American Enterprise Institute - a right-wing think tank - much of what he has to say (which includes an attack on disability benefits) is purely ideological
This is actually a really solid point.



