The Soapbox
The Soapbox is a series of short notes, posts, shares, and interesting thing the author B.A. Prole would like to share.
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I write a lot about the negative consequences of social media on society and the impact that it's having on civilization and our children. I made a commitment to get off of all social media in 2026, which became an issue for me in trying to find and speak to an audience. I'm happy to say B.A. Prole is now on twitter.now and I support this platform.
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Creators Description: This channel is about geography, history, and economics but I mix in some memes to make it fun. I do geography explainer videos and educational history videos formatted like Discord chats. I also discuss philosophers like Marx and Hobbes and relate them to the internet and history. Every video is researched, edited, and produced by me and my team. Some details might not be perfect but everything is created with dedication for educational purposes. I am so grateful to all the viewers who support the channel. If you ever want to use my material please just remember to give proper credit.
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If you were born after 1981, there is a reasonable chance you do not own a home. You have tried, you have wanted it, and you have worked hard. The median home price in the United States has increased by more than fifty percent since 2020 alone. Mortgage rates that sat near three percent or lower during the pandemic years climbed above seven percent by 2023. A monthly payment on a median-priced home in 2024 was more than double what it was just four years earlier, yet the average American’s wages did not double. In 1983, a thirty-year-old Baby Boomer had about a one in two chance of owning a home. A thirty-year-old Millennial in 2023 had roughly a one in three chance. The numbers just stopped working. Generation Z, the people born in the late 1990s and early 2000s who are now in their twenties, watched the pandemic housing boom happen in real time and understood that they were watching a door close. The people who already owned property became wealthier, and the people who didn’t watched the price of entry rise beyond their reach. By age twenty-five, nearly thirty percent of Generation Z are still living with their parents, not because they want to, because the numbers just don’t work. Chapter One of “The Enclosed” will be available for free download at baprole.com Labor Day 2026!
Patriot of the Week: Frederick Allen Hampton Sr.
Frederick Hampton was an activist who served as deputy chairman for the Black Panther Party. He also was chair of the Rainbow Coalition, an anti-racist socialist organization whose goal was to unite marginalized groups in Illinois. While working with the Rainbow Coalition he united African-Americans, Latinos, and poor white working-class youth under one coalition. Hampton was involved in the NAACP and promoted various working-class citizens to unite as one to change corruption, police brutality, slum housing conditions, racism, and address poverty. Under his leadership of the Black Panther Party of Chicago he enacted Free Breakfast for Children Initiatives, feeding thousands of children in Chicago's most impoverished areas. Hampton was drugged by a paid FBI informant within the Black Panther Party in 1969. The FBI and local police forces raided his location firing between 90-99 rounds. Hampton was shot in his bed in a drug-induced sleep. After almost a decade of litigation, the Federal government, Cook County, and the City of Chicago each paid one-third of the $1.85 million civil settlement in 1982. Hampton was just one of the many leaders of working-class community-based organizations that met their demise at the hands of the FBI’s COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence program) whose goal was to prevent the “rise of a messiah who could unify and electrify the militant nationalist movement.” Frederick Hampton was 21 when he was assassinated. His son, Fred Hampton Jr., was born 25 days after the assassination and continues the work of his father. Click below to visit his website.
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Think about the last time you watched Shark Tank. Maybe you were rooting for the entrepreneur. The nervous small business owner pitching their idea in front of the panel of millionaire investors, hoping for the investment that could realize their dreams. Or maybe without even noticing, you were watching from the other side of the table. Evaluating the owner’s pitch, calculating the profit margins, extrapolating the company valuation, wondering whether the investment made sense. If it was the second, you were doing something worth examining. You were inhabiting the perspective of a class of people whose financial interests, and often values, are starkly different from your own.Chapter One of “The Enclosed” will be available for free download at baprole.com Labor Day 2026!
At one time in American history there was an unspoken agreement. The agreement was between employer and employee. The employer takes care of the employee and provides them a living wage, in exchange for the loyalty and hard work of the employeeWe as the working class continue to fulfill our obligations, but the employers have forgotten about their responsibility. That forgetting didn’t happen by accident, it was designed.The largest corporations in America are being subsidized by us, the working class, through the social programs their employees need to survive due to the lack of living wages provided. All the while, their shareholders reap the reward of receiving their dividends at the expense of the taxpayers.