@georgetakei Definitely important to consider the source. Vance entered the scene on the wings of Hillbilly Elegy, a portrait of Appalachia so insultingly myopic a lot of folks who might have liked him think he's horrid. Vance cares about one thing: Sympathetic Attention. He is absolutely the privileged cis white man moaning about his own oppression. He likes to conflate himself with the working poor, so that he can claim His perspectives are ours. Reader, they are not.