Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "Whatifalthist"
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@GoldenMarrie I'm glad you don't prescribe medicine as a first resort to everything. It's necessary sometimes, but often it makes things worse. Many parents, especially mothers use it because it's the "easy way out." Children, especially boys, can be a handful, and the idea of calming them down can be too tempting to pass up. Additionally, if one puts faith in authority figures like doctors, it can be easy to convince one's self that it's the right decision, even if there exists a better path.
Single mothers are an easy target for blame because, frankly, they're kind of responsible. It's not their fault that society has conspired to put them in charge of raising children, but since it has, it's simplest to simply blame the single mothers for not being good enough, even if the odds were stacked against them. We can look to history for possible solutions, these problems didn't always exist, but the things that might work are very unpopular, especially among left wing women.
Things like easily accessible birth control, no fault divorce, biased divorce courts, dating apps, even filters on selfies put young women in a position where they hold a huge amount of power in regards to relationships and sex. This power imbalance is at least partially responsible for a lot of the problems we have in society today. I don't like the idea of using law to impose regulations on people's behavior, but maybe a softer form of simply removing negative incentives might be more acceptable to a wider audience. For example, don't use taxpayer money to subsidize birth control/ abortions, make it somewhat more intensive to break a marriage contract, or at least balance out divorce courts so marriage isn't seen as a huge risk for every man. But pushing back even in small ways like this is often seen as an attack on women.
I don't want to return to every woman being a housewife, I don't think we should strictly impose rules on people like that. But liberalism makes a lot of assumptions about how people work that appear to be wrong. Men and women aren't exactly equal, they both absolutely have important roles in society, but they specialize in different things. Most women would prefer to work less hours, or even be a stay at home parent, while most men are fine with working longer hours provided they have a partner to care for them and their children. We can and should recognize the difference between the sexes without degrading either sex.
Women entering the work place en-mass depressed wages for everyone, men and women alike, thus forcing many couples to become dual income whether they wanted to or not. It was very profitable for the government who benefits from more taxable income, but a bad deal overall for just about every normal working class family. This isn't a simple thing to undo, and I don't have any elegant solutions to this. I suspect any government program to try to undo this would be deeply unpopular and cause more harm than good. If there is a solution to this, it has to be societal/ cultural.
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Let's try to avoid this scenario. If it did happen, the cities would starve. You can't win a war without food. Cities don't produce anything. They're hubs of administration, culture, and some limited industry. Industry exists outside of cities, while administration and culture doesn't win wars. Also, city people are weak. They'll be at each other's throats within a week of the food running out. People who live in cities don't understand supply chains, they don't understand why the markets are empty, but they'll be desperate, hungry and angry. Oh yeah, and the only people in cities with guns are cops and criminals. Country folk are armed, and they know how to shoot. Most just want to be left alone, but if a bunch of bandits from the cities try stealing their land or food, they will happily form militias to defend their property.
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