Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

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Hey everyone, Book about the show.

Got a long requested follow-up episode with previous guest Michael Linde.

Michael Linde has a new book out. It's called How to Pay, How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America.

The last had Michael on to speak about his previous book, The New Class War,

Sivy Democracy from the Manager of Elite.

And before that, we had him on with now Senator JD Vance back in early 2020 to discuss the book there as well.

So if you like Michael Linde content, there is plenty of content there.

This new book is all about the issue of wages.

He basically argues that there are five main issues facing the country right now.

One, a demographic crisis, decline in strong family structures and a shrinking birth rate,

two, a social crisis, which is due to the increased experience of loneliness and

disillusion of communal institutions, three, an identity crisis, which is the weaponization of racial

and gender-driven identity politics in the fight for good jobs and status,

four, a political crisis, which is inflamed by distracting culture wars and a moral panic

from both left and the right. All of these crises in his perspective are shaped by an underlying one

that is an economic crisis, which is due to the existence of too many bad jobs with in his words,

quote, terrible wages, not existing benefits and dangerous working conditions.

So a lot of things to go through, but this is a really great episode. It's always great to speak

with them. Definitely let me know what you think. Other note this week, so I'm going to

record our next realignment supercast Q and A episode. So if you'd like to get access to the full

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