Why do men feel so unloved?

Male loneliness, the pricing of people, and the demise of human rights in America

The 80/20 “rule” makes an appearance in Adolescence

A market scene in Naples, by Vincenzo Caprile

As Michael Cohen explained six years ago, Trump inflates his assets to get loans, and deflates them to avoid taxes.

Likewise, he feigns sickness to dodge responsibilities like military service, and inflates his health on fake reports to seem indomitable.

In his mind, there are no actual assets or actual lab-test results. There is just what the market will afford him when he lies about these things. Marketing tricks and rigging are the only way Trump has ever seemed to achieve anything. It’s no surprise that with the tariff burlesque he’s trying full on market manipulation on a global scale now.

But he’s also trying it when he believes he can void the inalienable rights of human beings, including Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Making markets for human beings has a name: Slavery.

So we need to talk about people and pricing. Meaning enslavement.

I say Trump “believes he can void” inalienable rights because human rights cannot actually be stripped away. One way to understand this is that you don’t have your rights. You are your rights. More specifically: Just because Abrego Garcia, the sheetmetal worker Trump sent to a torture prison, is not being afforded due process doesn’t mean he does not retain the right to due process.