https://rumble.com/v4ng5sr-njf-on-marriage.html
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summary:
- you can't take risks
- you can't trade your comfort for resources toward a greater goal
- women have absolute legal power
- women have no obligations or duties in how they behave
- most of the masculinity exhibited by married men is performative and trivial
- every mechanism to control a wife's behavior is seen as "abuse"
Even knowing all of this, and generally agreeing with it, I still think the costs and sacrifices are worth it as long as you go in for the purposes of having children. Unless you are an incel genius like Isaac Newton or Nikolai Tesla then producing those children and doing your best to impart your values on to them, in spite of everything arrayed against you, is your "greater purpose".
The lion's share? Oh I very much disagree. Hot water, running or drinkable water for that matter, electricity, air conditioning, those things are very very finite. They're maintained by a fragile system of logistics, training and maintenance and the actual skills to do so are dwindling as the population becomes more and muddy.
The people who make and maintain those things? Those people absolutely positively contribute.
The point here is that, despite our incredibly skewed economic model, may John Maynard Keynes burn in hell forever by the way, in reality consumption is not a good thing in and of itself, and purposeless consumption is inherently a bad thing.
And if you disagree with my 90% comment, okay cool, semantics. Even if it's 85%, it doesn't matter because that's still two hundred and sixty million people who don't justify the air they breathe.
Is someone with useful skills. As I've said above, such things are laudable.
But this isn't about that. Is not such a man contributing far more, if he has children and raises them to be good citizens? Smart, productive, useful people should be having children.
The point isn't any particular number or detail. The point is that there are too many grasshoppers and not enough ants in our country right now.