OnlyFans, H1B Visas, and the Slow Collapse of the American Workforce

Once upon a time, America’s economic powerhouses built bridges, mapped microchips, forged steel, and launched satellites. Ford. GE. IBM. Microsoft. The companies that defined innovation, manufacturing, and national progress. But fast-forward to today, and the most profitable company per employee in the country isn’t a tech titan, aerospace innovator, or industrial giant.

It’s OnlyFans — a digital marketplace that sells virtual intimacy.

That’s the state of the modern American economy: a nation that once built skyscrapers now prints profits from loneliness. On paper, it’s wildly profitable. In reality, it paints a sobering picture of where we are—and where we’re headed.

A Workforce Built on Virtual Desire

OnlyFans’ success isn’t just an oddity; it’s a reflection of the economy’s shifting priorities. Instead of creating things, we’re monetizing feelings. Instead of producing goods, we’re producing attention. Instead of rewarding innovation, we reward isolation — the economy of desire over the economy of development.

Millions of users—mostly men—spend significant portions of their income on digital relationships. On the other side of the screen, creators—mostly women—describe emotional numbness, loss of natural attraction, and declining real-world connection. It’s a cycle where both buyer and seller walk away lonelier.

Meanwhile, actual intimacy in the country is cratering. In 1990, 55% of American adults reported having sex weekly. Today? 37%.

That decline isn’t just cultural. Researchers link social disconnection to increased mortality—more dangerous than obesity, alcoholism, or smoking 15 cigarettes a day. We aren’t just lonely. We’re sick from it.

Enter Trump and the H1B Pivot

And while American social and economic infrastructure frays, the current administration is facing a different crisis: declining domestic talent in high-skill industries. Corporate universities are failing to produce job-ready graduates. Students are drowning in tuition debt for degrees that provide no meaningful return. Entire generations have pivoted to the trades because that’s where the real money—and the real jobs—are.

So what’s the solution from the top?

More H1B visas, and as many as possible.

This from the same man who once declared, “They’re not sending their best.” Today, he says openly:“In the jobs that matter, we have no talent.”

And his answer is to import it.

At one level, the strategy props up universities that would otherwise buckle under collapsing enrollment. It keeps corporate lobbyists happy. It allows companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers quickly and cheaply. But what it does not do is strengthen the American workforce.

Instead, it treats Americans as replaceable. Disposable. Expendable.

A workforce hollowed out by tuition debt, fed into an education system that overcharges and under-delivers, and then overshadowed by imported talent that was never given a chance to develop here.

The Two Collapsing Pillars: Work & Intimacy

America is now caught between two failing economic pillars:

1. A shrinking pool of domestic high-skill workers

Universities can’t produce enough talent. Students don’t want overpriced degrees. Companies don’t want underprepared graduates. So the nation leans on H1Bs to fill holes instead of addressing the holes themselves.

2. A rising economy built on loneliness

While real economy sectors struggle, virtual intimacy thrives. The most profitable business models in America now revolve around desire, attention, and emotional vacancy.

It’s not innovation that’s driving profits—it’s isolation.

What Does This Say About Us?

We’ve created an economy where:

• Skilled workers are imported

• Domestic talent stagnates

• Universities survive on foreign enrollment

• Young people flee academia for the trades

• Virtual intimacy outperforms real innovation

• And our most profitable business sells connection to the disconnected

It’s not hard to see the trajectory. If this continues, America will have:

• fewer innovators

• fewer strong families

• more social isolation

• more economic dependence

• and a collapsing foundation for future competitiveness

This isn’t just a labor problem. It’s a cultural breakdown.

The Hard Truth

The most profitable company in America shouldn’t be a digital intimacy platform. That reality alone reveals a shift in our national priorities. We are no longer an economy rooted in building, inventing, or educating. We are an economy rooted in consumption — emotional consumption.

And if the solution to our workforce crisis is simply importing talent rather than rebuilding our own, then America isn’t solving its problems. It’s avoiding them.

As the conversation ends, one truth stands above the rest:We are monetizing loneliness while outsourcing our future.

If we don’t change course soon, our economy won’t just be unproductive —it will be unsustainable.

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