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Bitcoin has greatly increased in price while the USD has dumped in value exclusively for decades. The dollar has lost 95%+ of it's original purchasing power when they took it off the gold standard. The dollar doesn't hold value at all, it's losing value due to inflation every single day. Just less rapidly than some other currencies that are manipulated to an even higher degree. Do you pay attention to food, housing, or insurance prices? They have increased _significantly_ in just the past 3 years.

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The article is interesting but overall the conclusions don't pass muster to me. Women are also suffering and many of the things in the article are just facts about men such as method of suicide. For example, women are more likely to attempt suicide but fail when men choose more violent means so they often succeed more often. I'm sorry that men choose more violent suicide methods but that doesn't reflect anything on society or women other than men are more violent by nature. Which is a fact.

For the first time in history, men aren't the end-all-be-all of economic impact and I don't think this is a problem. Women have been getting the short end of the economic stick for awhile. The fact is the economy is changing and the traditional jobs that men have had in the past are no longer as high paid or necessary due to advancements in technology. Here's a perfect example:

"You have an infrastructure bill that will create jobs largely for men. Two-thirds of the jobs in the infrastructure bill will go to men: black men as much as white men, and Hispanic men a little bit more, because they’re so represented in the construction industry. Don’t hide from that fact, as the administration does when they’re challenged on it."

I think is just wrong. We shouldn't be making bills for men we should be making bills for _people_ that _need work done_. If "shovel jobs" aren't economically valuable and men want to pick up shovels and women want to pick up computer keyboards, does that mean we have some kind of crisis of the gender that happens to pick up shovels more often? I don't buy it. We have a crisis where _people_ are picking up the wrong tools if their goal is to make maximum economic output. Men should pick a lane. Either they are content with doing "shovel jobs" or they can go to school like everyone else and get a non-shovel job that pays well. We don't support the horse economy anymore other than niche areas because horses are, besides ranching or farming, useless for economic output. Why would we subsidize an entire class of jobs which don't make economic sense for the benefit of men only? That's against the market forces that run our economy and it's also against equality women have been fighting for for _generations_

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