Horrifying phrase I heard recently: enterprization of consumption. Far too true unfortunately.
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Maybe community and religious orgs need to run “marriage accelerators” for couples. Like gender-neutral couples Home Ec from past era. Pre-seed/: one or both has steady paycheck job Engagement: seed stage Marriage: series A Child: Series B Mortgage: Series D XY-Combinator
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This is fun, hijacking and forking someone else’s thread in a new, extremist direction
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Micromanorial economy. Maybe everybody can also have a budget “family office”, time-shared e-butler, etc.
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This pattern is mostly cost-control and defensive in 2019, to hold position rather than ambitiously move forward like in 2006. https://twitter.com/aelkus/status/1201247629398757376?s=21 … https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1201247629398757376 …
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Hot take: tradwifery, ironic or sincere, is economically a conservative status-stop-loss downward class-mobility defense. Domestic stock buyback to take family, inc. private almost. Two-income living is increasingly a bad deal in big, expensive cities, especially with kids
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It is a better deal to have one member of a couple stay home and take over a lot of internal service and product operations that would be far too expensive to buy at market rates. Childcare is an obvious example.
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Idea: “who should quit working outside the home?” calculator for couples. It’s no longer a gender roles/cultural performance question. It’s a business decision. For many couples, it would in fact be financially a tactical stroke of genius forvthe guy to quit and be COO of home.
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Prediction: enterprization of consumption will be followed soon by the bro-ization of house-husbanding. Somebody will rebrand household work and shopping/errands as “Home hacking” or something. Cf marketing/PR —> “growth-hacking” via bro-ization.
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Bromom would be peak-bro. I’m betting beards and smart-home hacking projects with RPis will replace feminine markers of domestic authority like flagship thanksgiving dinners
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Theory: neoliberal dream is done for good, but the only way we can emerge out of this shitty ethnonationalist reactionary phase and return to a historic trend towards increasingly pluralistic globalized cosmopolitanism is to lean into the micromanorialization of households.
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The unreconstructed traditional family is the heart of the reactionary ethnonationalist project. Driving it towards a postmodern non-traditional business-like construct designed for dense urban environments and information economy is central to coming out the other side.
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If you have kids and are in the US, seriously consider a family LLC as your estate planning vehicle.
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