Ethan Ralph, while not innocent, is himself a victim.
A victim of college scam and hyper socializing. He had no business ever stepping into a higher education institution, getting brainwashed into thinking of himself as an intellectual leftist while he was just a midwit wigger, no business trying pursue being a journalist while the best he could do is write dear diary entries. No business spending his entire adult life getting validation for his midwit takes in Facebook and Twitter.
Ralph should have been a plumber, a mechanic, a fork lift operator, a factory worker.
Whatever you want to say about Ralph, he had enough drive and charisma when he was young to thrive in a trade.
He could have easily gotten into a union at around 25, married a homely girl, be a good enough christian, have some kids.
Now at 37 he would fully own a house, probably a second one as a rental, a teenage kids he actually loved, a wife he doesn't despise, higher income than he has now, and manageable debt.
He would still be fucking tech illiterate and probably be one of those boomers that uses a dumb phone, but it wouldn't matter at all, he wouldn't even understand Twitter and have no desire to.
It could have gone so much better.