JOBLESS? Blame women!!
BLAME THE WOMEN!!!!!
Women fought tooth and nail to have the opportunity to work just like men and any man who said women should stay at home with the kids was called a sexist who wanted to chain women to the stove.
Women entered the work force doubling the labour force while reducing its worth - wages haven't moved up since 70s but the cost of living has resulting in two income house holds becoming the norm.
Women realise work isn't fun and want to retire 30 years earlier in their 30s and play house but realise they need a man whose income can support a family - they can't find one so they blame men for being losers.
No. Women created this situation and are now reaping their rewards.
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Let's consider the absurdist extreme of the argument for keeping women out of the workforce; other men, too, are part of the labor supply, so removing them should drive up wages for those remaining, right? Except this is clearly stupid, there would be so little supply of goods and services that the effective wages of the handful of workers couldn't buy anything.
Supply and demand are two sides of the same coin, the supply of one good or service is effectively the demand for another. More workers simply cutting wages assumes a constant demand for labor, with no increased production to sell off in turn. Maintaining an unemployed class as a positive means of maintaining wealth and growth is the exact sort of lunacy only a half-assed foggy notion of economics can bring, and falls on its face when you consider both concrete realities of production and a proper view of economic theory.
Labor surges and resultant wage depression does exist, but if a higher labor force participation rate means more poverty, skipping straight to anti-feminism is a fundamental failure of imagination.
@Bob Dole Spare me the pseudo-sceintific capitalist propaganda that is "economic theory." I beg you! Listening to that made up, unproven, and unprovable bullshit is basically like being waterboarded, castrated, and lobotomised all at the same time, only slightly less fun and infinitly more painful. If the meltdown of '08 proved anything, it's that economists have no fucking clue what they're talking about, and the entire field is about as legitimate as astrology creationism and climate denial.
Well, back in the day (1950s Germany) my grandma would stay at home, wash, cook and clean and take care of a small garden patch where they grew vegetables. She had to do so because the wages from my grandpa's 64 hours a week job (without real education, because grown up in Nazi Germany) wasn't enough to afford any type of machinery helping with the household, and not even really enough food (that's why they were growing a lot of stuff on their own.) Women "working" for money was not unheard of, but my grandpa would have been shunned in society for "not being able to provide" if his wife had a job. So she worked her ass off at home.
You want to go back there?
Well-off single income households were never really the norm. That existed only for a privileged upper middle class.
THEY TOOK 'ER JERBS!!!
You need to blame conservatives who insist that women should stay home and be homemakers, yet refuse to make businesses pay a living wage in order to make that possible. Now it's rare to find a married couple who can afford to have one spouse not work. If you want "the little woman" to be able to stay home and cook & clean all day, then make it possible.
Blame women!!
BLAME THE WOMEN!!!!!
This really sort of encapsulates the whole mindset behind a lot of bigotry. It starts by saying that if you don't have everything you want in life to just blame somebody else. It's not really a matter of earning or putting in effort it should just be yours by default. And then by beating down whoever it is you've pinned the blame on and smacking everything they earn or build out of their hands you'll somehow have more. Again just by default like there's a door prize and you chased everyone out of the line. No real consideration for cause and effect it will just happen. And then it caps it all off by saying that when anyone else has a problem, especially the exact same problem, it's all their own fault instead and blaming you as you blame them (even when you're in the middle of talking about how you'll fuck them over out of spite) is pathetic and makes them deserve misery all the more wrapping up the complete lack of awareness that drives this mindset.
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