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Many of them often come from single parent households unfortunately.
We’re going to see an interesting social shift happen within a century’s time, if we haven’t begun this cycle already. Western welfare systems have been in free fall as a result of the social changes that have already taken place post-1960, along with globalization and technological progress; enabling corporations to extract more productivity out of people than individuals can easily earn back; as well as the difficulty of capturing the excess of the highest earners of the tax base (or just a complete intellectual loss of understanding how fiscal spending works, which coincidenced with the shift from Keynesian administrations to Neoliberal ones in the postwar period).
The cracks in the system are there and the modern world has made it such that this paradigm can’t be easily reformed (if it can be reformed at all). Collapse in the TFR means shrinking productivity, technology means capital flight is a few click away during tax season and antagonistic social relations between the genders means good luck to social stability in the future. There’s either going to be a Great Reconciliation where people just step to the right, and reality has forced them to acknowledge the necessary sacrifices to make life livable in hard times, or there’s going to be a great deal of oppression coming.
I think part of the problem is that modern technology and lifestyles have sort of enabled this. When you have entire generations of people who have only minimal contact with reality, they Don’t really believe in the necessity of teaching kids to survive in the world. When the default is “if he fails then there are all of these systems that mean he will do okay.” That could just be the assumption of the time when mom and dad were in school and there were enough “good enough” jobs for college graduates that a kid who flounders for a couple of years will be okay, so there’s no urgency in making sure that your kid is employable and can present himself well. For the lower class it’s much the same. Kids don’t need to worry about learning in school and learning a trade or going to college because welfare will feed them. And without hard edges, without having to worry about whether the children are being raised into sensible adults, they tend to go with the idea of letting kids do whatever they want.
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Oppression is coming, I think. Only question is how to best position myself and my family to minimize harm to ourselves. Probably best to delete social media profiles which can be used as evidence of any political leanings one way or another.
The oppression is already here. Men and women aren't allowed to agree on the rules of engagement, you aren't permitted a place to raise your kid without paying ruinous costs in rent because building is illegal, the list goes on.
Just because it doesn't on its face look like what Boomers (or prior generations) told you oppression would look like, and just because you can still technically bear it, doesn't mean it isn't oppression.
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Could very well be. Roko’s Basilisk could still be in effect via social media.
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