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Two fallacies in one

Posted by Errant on 2024-April-9 06:45:26, Tuesday
In reply to How feminism liberated women (ha ha ha) posted by diogenes on 2024-April-8 17:52:20, Monday

"And so now one male wage no longer keeps a family, and we have a falling birth rate."

Amazing how a writer can pack one fallacy upon another. First off, it doesn't seem that a lack of wealth really explains the decline in birth rates. Lower classes typically have higher birth rates (Mormons notwithstanding) and attempts to promote birth rates with financial incentives have had lackluster results.

And more people working does not result in a decline in wealth. If you think that more people in the workforce means further splitting up the cash, then you've fallen for the belief that money is wealth. What really matters is what goods and services are available in the economy. More people working in the economy means that there are more goods and services being produced and floating around. That is what wealth is.

"Females, however, are still haunted by a lack of female “greatness”"

Most people in the world, male or female, will never achieve "greatness," whatever the hell that means. Why should anyone let themselves feel "haunted" by that? And I don't know what kind of "men" are so obsessed with how well some random woman might be doing. It's usually just some loser incels crying on the internet. Normal guys have better things to do than sulk.

And if you want to blame capitalism for something, there's still a way to do so if you must. Capitalism made it possible for people of either sex to become economically independent of their family and extended family. The drawback to this is that with that extended family now out of the picture, childcare becomes burdensome and it usually ends up with mothers taking the bigger hit. Of course, this may partially explain why lower income families have more kids since they're more likely to maintain everyday contact with extended family.

Errant

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