What does equal pay for equal work even mean in gig-work/free agency?
What does maternity leave mean under the API where you’re flex-timing and gambling with surge pricing algorithms anyway?
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Otoh incredible financial leverage now available in basic behaviors like shopping. The NYT just did a thing on how perverse incentives in healthcare are leading women doctors to gravitate to family strengthening practices like internal medicine and geriatrics etc.
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Increasingly (from a small but rapidly growing base) the world is starting to rhyme more with hoe cultures than plow cultures.
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Biggest forces at work:
- Aging population
- Healthcare eating the economy
- Free agency/gig work growing, full-featured paycheck jobs in retreat
- Death of the public (and social capital therefore retreating to the domestic sphere)
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This trend is much more obvious to men than to women, thanks to higher human sensitivity to losses over gains. Understandably, given they are starting from a much lower base of power, gains seem trivial and the absolute gap in agency and power still seems insurmountable.
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This isn’t the result of conscious, intentional political change. It is a side effect of unraveling of industrial era institutions and a sort of natural regrouping around institutions already dominated by women.
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Don’t expect all guys to retreat sullenly to video games, flirt with radicalization and mass shooting fantasies, or be able to participate in the last great patriarchal show: securitization and financialization of everything. The majority will attempt entryism by masculinization.
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Yes if it isn’t naturally open to you and you have to get past some barriers to acquire that life and possibly displace a woman already in that specific role

