Crowstep
1d ago
No, its not unique to millenials, but I suspect that the environment they're in is creating pressures previous generations didn't experience at the social level.
How do we square that with the face that age gaps between husbands and wives are decreasing over time?
Crowstep
6d ago
Every government program expands until it all is essentially 70% fraud by most people’s understanding of what the program was suppose to fix.
Technophiles like to talk about guaranteed minimum income when the robots inevitably take all our jobs. I wonder if the process won't be more gradual. Disability and unemployment schemes expanding until they encompass basically everyone. The more people who lie in order to access the schemes, the less taboo there is for everyone else.
The only thing that seems to be stopping it is the status hit that people take from being unemployed. As much as I criticise building an identity around work, at least those people tend not to cheat the welfare system.
I know a Russian girl who got offended when someone referred to her as a woman. She said it made her sound old.
To move from being called 'madame-moiselle' to 'madame' is an unpleasant right of passage for every young French woman.
Really, the anglosphere is weird in that we think referring to a young woman as a girl might be a bad thing.
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