Just imagine. The entire modern economy, pretty much anywhere, but certainly in any “Western” nation, is now based on the idea that everyone male and female, works full time…
Universities have become wholly female-dominated. So have many, many professional fields. Most workplaces cater to the wants of middle-class women. So does most government messaging. So does the entire “field” of HR and recruiting…
At the same time, birth rates are crashing to totally unsustainable levels. Children aren’t raised properly at all, and are shipped off to “childcare” or to older relatives, as early as possible. Parents no longer no, or care, how to raise kids.
Cook for your family? Congrats, you’re an outlier. Most people seem to view cooking as some sort of “luxury”, and instead base most meals on either frozen shit, or takeaway and deliver, depending on their background…
Marriage is broken, and hell, most millennials don’t even bother with it. Divorces are higher than ever, and many couples barely even see, or talk to, each other, let alone their kids, anymore. So many kids are from broken homes, now, whatever their background or race…
Yet jobs are still flying offshore (never mind automation. It’s not there yet), and immigrants are still piling in to every Western country, partly to keep the birth rates up, and partly to keep house prices and rents ever increasing… Oh, and to push wages down, of course.
This, despite more “locals” working than ever before. This, despite women demanding ever more catering to from corporate, and all of the “equity” bullshit…
There’s no way any of this is sustainable, and yet it is everywhere… In every single “developed” country.
Some people here like to talk about Russia, but christ, look at their birth rates. Look at China, too. It’s not just “American allies and adjacents” that this is affecting. It’s almost everywhere, with a few very notable exceptions…
Amazing to think that “women's rights” and runaway corporatism, plus unlimited contraceptives (arguably) may be what dooms us, let alone all the trans kids raised on hormones shit…
I would say that maybe some parts of humanity can still correct this ship, but I’m not so sure anymore…
I doubt even in 1980 people would have thought that fucking Nigeria and India would inherit the Earth, but here we are…
/rant
It was a con from the very start. Not even kidding. It was never about 'women's rights.' I'm not sure how much each contributed, but it was about destroying the family, destroying wages and raising cost of living, and general greed about the aforementioned lower wages.
It was never meant to help women, or make them more equal. It was an attack, a coup.
I agree.
Especially when so many jobs (SaaS, mostly, for example) don’t really produce anything of value…
We’ve invented whole industries of bullshit work, just to keep people slaving away, to afford stupid shit that they don’t really need anyway…
Then again, rents in Australia in anywhere with work, and indeed house prices, are so patently absurd it’s no wonder people feel they need to “work hard and get every qualification possible to rise above the pack!”
Like, in Sydney for example, to afford a rental with a reasonable commute to where I would be working (say 1 - 1.5 hrs), I would be looking at… Something like 40% of weekly earnings, minimum, purely on rent… And that’s only in a “good” paying job. Which I probably wouldn’t get anyway.
It’s obscene. The whole thing is obscene.
I'm just gonna leave this here... https://web.archive.org/web/20180807024932/http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
I'm pretty sure Graeber is some kind of socialist- he proposes universal basic income as a solution in the book he wrote based on this article. While I don't agree with his proposed solutions, I think he nails the description of this phenomenon.
Yeah. I agree. That’s partly what I was referring to (Graeber’s thesis).
The problem is that these jobs even exist in the first place, and that people end up doing them…
Like, UBI wouldn’t solve that phenom - they would just import more immigrants to do the dumb pointless jobs anyway…
We literally already see that as it is, lol.