There was an interesting interview on the ACLU podcast that ended with a law professor saying that the reason conservatives wanted to shore up the family was to prevent the creation of a welfare state.
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The way she framed it was so interesting, as if the welfare state was the default and the preservation of the family was some devious scheme by a political sect to hold it at bay by having the family substitute for the goods provide by the state
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Obviously, conservatives would agree about their motives -- they just see the family as the default and the welfare state as the troubling imposition
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Northern European social democracies have moved toward post-family welfare statism. And as I understand it, those that tried to preserve more traditional gender roles (like Germany) have lower fertility rates than those that went whole hog post-traditional (in Scandanavia.)
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While the places (like Italy) that remain most traditional in their gender roles have seen a total collapse of fertility
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What I've not seen is any fruitful, scalable experiments in post-familial domesticity of the sort Scott Adams speculated on his blog.
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Might there be an app-based solution reliant on Big Five psychometric testing and other measures of compatibility to create domestic collectives? https://www.scottadamssays.com/2016/02/14/marriage-civilizations-biggest-mistake/ …
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Hard to know anything
Re big 5 compatibility I'm a bit skeptical of the capacity of psychometricians predicting domestic success with much success? But who knows maybe they could pull it off
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damn I have to make time for that stupid work
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