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Young productive men are substantially better off now then they have been for practically all of history. Despite taxation, the amount of wealth even the poorer man in the first world can access is still greater than many kings of the past. No matter how rich or powerful you were in the 1500s, you did not have a car or a smartphone or a video game console or a TV or take flights to Hawaii for vacation and probably not even indoor plumbing in many areas. Your food was still mostly limited to regional availability and what was in season. Most of your children would still die before they were five, and you were still unable to treat health and pain concerns in a meaningful way. Have an infection as a king? Tough it out like everyone else
Even the poorest dudes working at a gas station, it is not "a pittance", you have wealth beyond the dreams of many in history. Your children are alive, you have basically infinite entertainment at your fingertips, you have all the tasty food you want, you have clean and good looking clothes, you have incredible healthcare that can do what just a few centuries ago would be considered miracles. You aren't spending your time hauling buckets of water or poop as domestic chores.
Are you not talking about the west here? Every young man has political representation in western democracy. IDK what country you could be referring to with "it is illegal", but I'm not aware of any where men do not have suffrage.
I will say I do not know the inner workings of France well, but I can confidently say that the general point that you are richer, meaningfully richer in what you have and the quality you have it in, than almost everyone in history remains true. And from what I can tell at least, France still has suffrage for young men so I don't know what you mean by it being illegal.
Rich slaves are still slaves, absolute wealth is not in contention, dignity and station are. The station imposed on young men by modern western society is one of subservience and inferiority.
Suffrage is not voice, nor is it political representation as a class. No political party or organisation represents the interest of men as a class and those that purport to are banned by law or decree in France, Germany, the UK under the aupices of discrimination.
Liberal democracy in effect only serves the interest of the selectorate, which by the demographic force of the baby boom does not need include young men. It follows from the natural laws of politics that all viable politicians are bound to extract from them to give to their coalitions.
The average modern man is more free and more rich than basically anyone in history, we are not in any way similar to slaves.
Even better than "political representation as a class" is you getting to personally choose who and what best represents your views. Men are not a hivemind and plenty of other men (perhaps like me) would disagree with you on a number of topics.
I don't know enough European politics to say much about it, but what policy ideas do you have, that you also believe are common among men "as a class", that are not represented by any party and is universally banned across all three nations?
One of the biggest reasons why young people typically aren't represented as much as they could be is purely by their own choice to not vote. When young people do actually bother to vote, they can have a meaningful say in things.
Relative total taxation levels are the highest they have ever been, surveillance is more powerful it has ever been, laws are more numerous and more enforced they have ever been.
This is just not true. It's only true within a narrow liberal framework.
The modern world gives man more choice than he ever had, but choice is not the font of freedom.
To wit:
Is liberal dogma. no it is not better. What is better is what helps me and my friends and harms my enemies and their ilk.
Sensible centrism, essentially.
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The same would be true, if you literally reintroduced African slavery in the US today, and It was probably even true back when slavery was still legal in the US, so I don't see how this argument is valid.
Gonna go out with a hot take here, the average modern first world man is not living a life remotely similar to slavery. We have a life more free and more rich than basically everyone in history.
I will again point out that this would still be true, if you reinstated African slavery today.
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