My son earned a business management degree and had a hard time finding a job. He had to work in a movie theatre as an assistant manager that didn't pay too well. He went to trade school and earned a CDL (Commercial Driver's License) for $5000 and now drives a truck for decent money.

A college degree can be expensive, and it does not guarantee a job, plus you have a huge student loan to pay off. That is why American Men think it is not worth it to go to college anymore.

It would've been helpful, but extremely gauche, if Bloomberg had said the quiet part out loud: this is a phenomenon for White American Men.

There are plenty of "minorities" with DEI potential going to college and succeeding in lofty goals. The pipeline is full of men and women alike, but many of our generation and the next ones are not enjoying success.

I feel this is a case of ethnic/tribal class decline. (Perhaps I am about to touch a Great Replacement third-rail!) Mental illness and homelessness and career troubles are plaguing people like me, and we can't quite put our finger on it, but the truth is that we find ourselves part of an outgroup, and the ingroups are jostling for position in society, and there's simply not enough elbow room for everyone.

I see a lot of White Men in similar situations who can salvage their lives if they go to a vocational school, and get into a decent and steady blue-collar job. That's assuming that they won't be plagued by mental illness or an inability to marry or have relationships. Guys can do alright for themselves with no college at all.

In pondering my own troubles, which involve all of the above and more, I'm confident in a few things: it's not my fault. Nothing I could've done would have reversed my fortune. And we need to wake up to this reality, that Living the American Dream and achieving more and more with each generation, these are not realistic goals for people like you and me.

It’s not fashionable. There’s a growing fixation on keeping up appearances of masculinity and it’s become a common identity. Education and mental health seem to be largely getting thrown out as non-masculine.

I don't want to sound too cynical but from European perspective I'd say just remove the horrendous costs of college and university by regulazing and subsidizing education. It's not communism even if many Americans would think so. But in order to get anywhere near there you'd probably have to start with replacing that orange toad and his minions with something else, anything really would do at this point