Capital_Room

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Capital_Room rather dementor-like 1d ago

And the latter is also possible, just look at the U.A.E.

But does the UAE scale? Further, the UAE isn't exactly a democracy, especially not one with birthright citizenship. I've seen some open borders advocates argue for a "billion immigrants" America that follows the UAE model (Nathan Smith for one), but none of them seem very clear on how to get there from here — well, beyond something like just throwing open the floodgates and hoping that the resulting effects force our political elites to make the desired changes and adopt the desired system in order to keep the country from collapsing (and the answers to "and if that doesn't work?" tend to be rather disheartening).

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Capital_Room rather dementor-like 1d ago

It’s like a tour of duty. There’s lots of industries that are hyper seasonal and / or are intensive for short amounts of time.

Oil workers are like that, for example. Fisherman, cowboys, that’s just off the top of my head.

We've got plenty of this sort of seasonal work up here in Alaska — and not just the oil workers and the crab boats, but also a lot of tourist-adjacent jobs, ranging from seasonal airport baggage handlers to RV park attendants.

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Capital_Room rather dementor-like 1d ago

As one of "The True Psychos," I'd personally like to thank you for laying this out so clearly and in such detail. AAQC'd.

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Capital_Room rather dementor-like 1d ago

That kind of transactional relationship sounds like the opposite of normal and healthy.

How many accounts — real or fictional — about relationships and marriage have you read that were written prior to the 19th century? Or from a non-Western culture (like any where arranged marriages were common). Marriage being treated to a great extent like a sort of financial/institutional merger involving two families, or a sort of "mutual physical/financial support" arrangement first, with "mutual love and desire" being a secondary factor — indeed, as something a couple deliberately builds over time — seems to be the more "normal" attitude across the history of settled human societies, with the 20th century West "all you need is love" attitudes being rather the outlier.

Edit: see also OracleOutlook's longer comment below.

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Capital_Room rather dementor-like 2d ago

I mean, can you name any former porn stars who have gone on to become high-status, influential people?

Well, depending on how you define "porn star" (and how much credence you give to Procopius), Empress Theodora immediately comes to mind.

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Capital_Room rather dementor-like 2d ago

Outside of Aella, the whole SAM (Speaking with American Men) initiative is indicative of this line of thinking. SAM seems to be focused on how to "market" Democrat's ideas to men instead of finding ideas that men actually want. I don't know if this is just me or if anyone else noticed this or if I'm just recognizing too many patterns.

It's not just you; I did a post on my Tumblr last week noting it as one of the three recurring elements in discussions about SAM. It's also part of my teacher/classroom analogy, specifically, the 'well, if some of the kids aren't absorbing the lesson, it's because the teacher isn't presenting in properly — she just needs to figure out those kids' particular "learning style" and tailor her instruction accordingly' part. (I'm also reminded a bit of a couple of people I've known who unironically endorsed Orwellian "duckspeak" — though not by that term, of course — as the ideal of human communication.)