1. Listening two female relatives discussing money causes me to roll my eyes in despair. I once worked at a job that dealt with pensions & savings for firemen. It was hilarious the lengths the firemen went to in order to hide cash from their wives so they’d have money...
2. Women can be quite canny when looking for a bargain, though they can’t really negotiate (or struggle to). In conditions of hyper-capitalism (or whatever it is we’re living under), they don’t really stand a chance bc the marketing is so pervasive (almost all ads aimed at women)
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3. My intuition is that thrift had to be imposed by men, although it was also a necessity. This returns to a classic reactionary contention: we’ve gone soft and lost our virtues due to prosperity.
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4. The reactionary hopes—sees as inevitable— for the “collapse” (of valueless money or by virulent disease or war) that will force people back to nature & the virtuous path. In this case, thrifty and virtuous women arising from consumerism collapsing.
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