[loydb]

Jennifer Sherman's book _Those Who Work, Those Who Don't_, is a fascinating (and depressing) exploration of what this means, and the social changes that happen when men (mostly former loggers) can't signal their virtue via this kind of blue-collar work. Check it out.

[lazyeye]

"Signalling their virtue" via blue collar work sounds like a wonderful thing compared to the vacuous foghorn that is social media. I mean it actually requires effort, something more than having a "correct" set of opinions.