Then we'll have to consider the possibility of government interventionism. But to suggest that current family breakdown is the result of economic stagnancy is to ignore that prosperity has broadly increased as family breakdown as increased.https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1084873979897077768 …
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Replying to @benshapiro
Oddly, that’s about where I am: we may need managed markets. I cede to you that many things have gotten better but imagine we both agree that the need for two incomes to do the work previously done by one & the increase in variance in our labor markets are negatives for families?
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein
The need for two incomes is partially the result of family breakdown, not the cause of it: decisions to choose career over family broadens the labor pool, driving down wages.
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Replying to @benshapiro
Partially. Yes. But there is reverse causality also. There aren't that many 27YO breadwinners that can properly support a care-giving co-parent for 10-15 years of kid rearing. Also, the knowledge work traditionally more done by men has gotten more fulfilling relative to kin work.
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein
How many people do you think aren't getting married for financial reasons? I'd love to see some numbers on that, because we've been trending strongly away from early marriage since the social revolution of the 1960s, not since the Reagan economy.
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Replying to @benshapiro
I don't know. The decoupling of sex from reproduction was a 1960s earthquake and I don't think we will or should go back to marriage before 22 as an expectation. I would think career uncertainty is often a bigger factor than the wage levels we focus on for things like mortgages.
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Replying to @EricRWeinstein @benshapiro
But another question I don't get: why is 'family' not the obvious unit to focus on in an on-going society? Gay or straight, rearing kids is about continuation. Why does family take a back seat to either identity collectives (left) or individuals (right) with secular commentators?
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Activism might be correlated with an urban singleton lifestyle?
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