Young Americans longing for 1950s world
lundi 10 avril 2017 à 02:00Young Americans increasingly long for a 1950s world in which the men work full time and earn enough to support the whole family, while the women stay at home.
I can understand the appeal of that, in comparison with today's world, in which a couple must both work full time, if they can find work, and even that barely supports a family.
Why have things got worse? Part of the responsibility lies with plutocracy and business-supremacy treaties, which have knocked down wages in real terms for most Americans. Part of it lies with the fact that we are taking from the Earth's ecosphere above its rate of regeneration. Global heating is going to reduce everyone's standard of living, except the rich if they can buy their way out of their fair share of the damage.
The ethical way to shield yourself partially from the effects of this is to avoid having children. The way to fix the problems for real is to defeat plutocracy.