The2ndAmendment
Gold Member
I have decided to make this thread in the Clean Zone, because this could quickly derail into a flame war otherwise. I didn't even mention the reason in the Title as to avoid the hatred that might ensue.
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Let us suppose, for a moment, that each the average family had 2 workers earning the average yearly income. Let's give it a fake number for the ease of math. Say the average yearly income is $10,000, therefore the average family is earning $20,000 per year.
Now, let us suppose that over a couple of years the average number of workers in each family doubles to 4, thus each family earns roughly $40,000 per year.
Within a short time, the supply of money would be too great for the limited supply of consumer goods, as such, the prices of all goods would quickly double, thus making that 40,000 equal to the previous 20,000, the value of each person's work would be cut in half, or equivalently, the two new workers in the family can be viewed as working for free.
However, now there's a problem. All four of the workers in the family are now COMPELLED to continue working, because they need every last dollar in order to survive from month to month. Telling your two kids to stop working and to go to back to school isn't an option, since the value of your own work has been cut in half via inflation.
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So, what is the point of this example? My grandmother was distressed over the fact that a man and woman now have to work one full time job each, and often more, just to make ends meet each month. She reminisced about the "good old times" where a man with a high school diploma could comfortably provide for his entire family while his wife was active with the kids, at home, at school, at the park, etc. She believes that the family unit has been demolished, YET, she does not know why.
In my opinion, the average family used to have a single worker, 1 workers, the man. Over the decades, the average family has 2 workers (man and woman), which has doubled the supply of money, and hence halved the value of the money. We've reached a point where a man with a high school diploma can barely support himself, never mind a woman, and furthermore any children. Without a doubt this has influenced the divorce rates and similar problems.
What's worse is that a woman is not even free to choose whether she wants to work or not (unless she marries a well-to-do man), she is COMPELLED to work for the survival of their family.
So that's my two cents. Although Feminism has contributed to liberating women from many abuses and oppressions, this is one clear way in which it has hurt them and the entire family unit.
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Let us suppose, for a moment, that each the average family had 2 workers earning the average yearly income. Let's give it a fake number for the ease of math. Say the average yearly income is $10,000, therefore the average family is earning $20,000 per year.
Now, let us suppose that over a couple of years the average number of workers in each family doubles to 4, thus each family earns roughly $40,000 per year.
Within a short time, the supply of money would be too great for the limited supply of consumer goods, as such, the prices of all goods would quickly double, thus making that 40,000 equal to the previous 20,000, the value of each person's work would be cut in half, or equivalently, the two new workers in the family can be viewed as working for free.
However, now there's a problem. All four of the workers in the family are now COMPELLED to continue working, because they need every last dollar in order to survive from month to month. Telling your two kids to stop working and to go to back to school isn't an option, since the value of your own work has been cut in half via inflation.
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So, what is the point of this example? My grandmother was distressed over the fact that a man and woman now have to work one full time job each, and often more, just to make ends meet each month. She reminisced about the "good old times" where a man with a high school diploma could comfortably provide for his entire family while his wife was active with the kids, at home, at school, at the park, etc. She believes that the family unit has been demolished, YET, she does not know why.
In my opinion, the average family used to have a single worker, 1 workers, the man. Over the decades, the average family has 2 workers (man and woman), which has doubled the supply of money, and hence halved the value of the money. We've reached a point where a man with a high school diploma can barely support himself, never mind a woman, and furthermore any children. Without a doubt this has influenced the divorce rates and similar problems.
What's worse is that a woman is not even free to choose whether she wants to work or not (unless she marries a well-to-do man), she is COMPELLED to work for the survival of their family.
So that's my two cents. Although Feminism has contributed to liberating women from many abuses and oppressions, this is one clear way in which it has hurt them and the entire family unit.