The book was a reflection of the experiences of the working class and the challenges they face, highlighting how their feeling of being stigmatized led them to make reckless decisions, including choosing not to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
He's the author of Dignity.
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The book was a reflection of the experiences of the working class and the challenges they face, highlighting how their feeling of being stigmatized led them to make reckless decisions, including choosing not to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
He's the author of Dignity.
And, Chris, one of the things that Crystal and I most appreciate about your work is that you just simply talk to people and you don't judge them.
One of the latest ones that you wrote in your sub-stack was about among the unvaccinated. Just tell us about what you found amongst working class people who are out there who don't feel like they want to get the vaccine.
And, you know, I think there's a lot going on there when someone makes it that, you know, what I think is a reckless decision. I think most people would say is probably a reckless decision. It makes it a core to their identity, makes it feel like something they're proud of, you know, and there's something I've written about in dignity, about also about addiction and other such things.
I'm very sympathetic in my book and I've been sympathetic a lot about the idea of owning the smug elites, you know, like I get the fact that if the elites tell you to do something, there's a tendency to say, well, everything else they've ever told me has been wrong. They don't like me. They think I'm icky, then I'll just do the opposite. And I think there's some of that going on here.