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…
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It's worse than you think. The doubling of the workforce didn't lead to doubling of productivity and by extension the lowering of prices. The women who entered the workforce created new departments like HR and compliance. The doubling of the workforce lead to a doubling (at least) of red tape. You can't do anything without at least 3 other people involved checking it and signing off on it. The number of people in a major company that actually do anything productive is so painfully low.
Totally agreed.
Shivers in “emotional well-being” as a category of WH&S…
Yeah, shit’s fucked.
Arguably some of these departments may have a use but the other problem too is that women are not as good at the productive job but rather than admit that women lobbied to get corporations to lower their standards and make performance less of a factor in promoting or compensation. Men who could be far more productive choose not to be because they see everyone else getting the same salary as them. The incentive structure just isn't there anymore thanks to women.
The presence of women also actively lowers productivity. I see it every day in my office. Women come over to my coworker's desk and stand around giggling for hours at a time, getting nothing done and preventing my coworker and myself from actually working on anything.