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...
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2. ...after the fireman died. The wives were surprised & slightly upset that this cash had been hidden from them. It was necessary, of course, and actually rather touching.
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Replying to @tomxhart
You mean from their wives’ propensity to consume and spend? To what extent is it a learned behaviour in our hyper-liberal system? i.e. would a society which incentivised thrift in women yield a different effect—or do you think this attitude innate?
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1. Yes. I think that the tendency for women to like shiny, colourful things is well established by classic literature—and I could probably pull a bullshit evo psych explanation out of my arse, but I’ll stick to lit & common sense.
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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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