# U.S. Capitalism as a Crisis for Men

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Podcast: [Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff](https://stenobird.com/podcast/economic-update-with-richard-d-wolff-7137856)
Published: 2026-07-07T00:55:00+00:00
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## Resource

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on rising wages for app-based NYC food delivery workers, a wave of U.S. firms being sold to their workers, McDonald's disaster with an AI experiment, and how Canada's leader Carney is also a major campaigner for capital and against labor inside Canada. The second part of today’s show features an interview with psychotherapist Tess Fraad-Wolff on the psychological crisis faced by men in US capitalism today.

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