You don't think he's beginning to ask the right questions w/r/t family formation?
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Probably. I'm pushing back against the tendency in contemporary political thought that paints family formation, historically, as anything other than a meat grinder.
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Post ww2 ease is an aberration. Probably much more important to cut off the free-riding underlass leaches than to give the working class an easier shake.
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I think the challenge is that w/o sufficient genetic incentive, the marginally middle classes don’t have the incentive to curtail short-term consumption & behavior in favor of needs further down their time-horizons.
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I get where you're coming from, but without birth control and when most labor was manual, monogamy was pretty much necessary for survival
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Exactly. Total fertility it seems to me is very insensitive to simple price economics.
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Technology has "liberated" women more than cultural changes imo; technology was the driver. To counteract technology, you need an even more radically patriarchal culture than came before. It should go without saying that female agency is anticivilizational
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You underestimate how socially driven girls are. 97% of girls whose friends have sex have sex and 97% whose friends don't, don't. Even considering both groups likely watch TV and attend public school.
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I do not underestimate this. Women are conformity machines. The question is, how did we get from one norm to the other? Did culture spontaneously shift? My argument is that technology was the prime cause. Feminism, critical theory, cultural Marxism then flooded into the cracks.
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I was pondering whether I resent people who become SJWs as a means of survival more, or the true believers, recently. Eric strikes me as a case of someone who found a better way to survive.
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I think to the extent I agree with Gianni it’s that if you cut F earnings by 25-30% and kept male earnings the same suddenly family formation would be considered more affordable
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There are some old studies of lottery winners where if women win it increases divorce rates and if men win it increases fertility, as I recall
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