The draft, prices, and the United States: three young men.
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Three young men in Philadelphia, Jake, Will and Tay, are asked what they think about the United States, the question of the week. The first answer is about being drafted. “With Trump, I guess, what he’s doing to people like our age, I guess going to the military or something like that, I feel like that’s not good.” He is not against service, he says; it is the choice being taken away: “if you want to go to the military, you should go to the military, but other people, they got other careers or pathways they want to do.”
The second is about money. “He’s upping prices on everything, I feel as though that’s bad just because people that don’t really have it or are struggling, he’s making it more worse for people to live.” And: “he’s not giving back nothing to the people, nothing and I feel as though that’s just not cool.”
Asked about Philadelphia itself, the verdict is split. “It’s 50-50. It’s like, I like it, but it’s also bad here. It’s not the safest place.” And the question one of them would put to the world: “What do you aspire to be? Like, what do you really want to get out of life?”
Filmed by Maceo for We Them Media. The transcript below is from the original audio.
