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Conservatives talk about the virtues of a wife consisting of primarily care taking in support of her husband and loving her children because historically males had a clear edge over females in their ability to reliably generate sufficient income for himself, thus making a team consisting of a productive husband and a care taking wife that takes exploits these comparative advantages the most (cost-)effective and reliable strategy for earning a living.
Today, on the whole and in spite of women’s entry into the workforce, that division of labor still holds true: over their lifetime men, as a group, produce and contribute to tax revenue disproportionately, whereas women, as a group, consume and receive tax revenue (and children and seniors of either gender consume). And where previously the husband’s authority or a natural limit his ability to generate income would limit his wife’s (and his own) ability to consume, we have now transferred the man’s authority to the state. This means that today
– we broker male-female relationships through the authority of the state,
– net consumers (women and the children they raise) increasingly rely on the welfare state since jumping through governmental hoops to obtain welfare for many women constitutes a greater return on investment and much lower running cost (or so they think),
– and net consumers (women and the children they raise) tend to vote for increases in state largesse (as self-interest would dictate).
More generally, today we practice communistic redistribution and democratic decision making at a societal level instead of at the family level. In addition, because we practice democratic decision making at a societal level the incentives for politicians reward appealing to the lowest common denominator, which the Democratic Party in the US (and every leftist party across the Western world) has increasingly translated into an imperative for increasing the number of dependents in a variety of ways:
– give women an incentive to leave their husbands by making divorce easy and profitable, thus raising the number of single mothers and the children they raise, which means that
– we produce a greater number of dysfunctional children, since we now know that children of single mothers disproportionately experience poverty, substance abuse, inability to sustain their own lifestyle and hold down a job, etc. (This also raises the level of conflict within society thereby increasing demand for authority and therefore fragile global instead of resilient local solutions)
– Importing labor (with the consent of the Republican/conservative elites who wished to punish the underclasses for the union movement) from different countries and therefore cultures who do not share the Protestant ethic but do demonstrate natural kin preference, by only weakly enforcing the border (or in the European case importing and then sustaining economic migrants by opening borders entirely).
On the whole, this means that we spend a greater and increasing amount of taxes on KEEPING THINGS RUNNING (welfare, law enforcement, conflict resolution, appeasement of minorities, conducting war for oil) than INVESTING IN FUTURE RETURNS (infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, space exploration and colonization, research and development, overhauling and opening the education system – in short, the Commons).
And where before a failure to reconcile the consumption drive of the wife (women) and children (children, underclasses, and low skill immigrants – the relationship is a domesticating one in all) would have resulted in the breakup of a single family and the absorption of its constituent parts into other families or greater social structures, leading only to minor and therefore negligible damage in the fabric of society, today a breakup of the marriage between productive male and consumptive female, i.e. the state,
– would and will take a longer time to occur (about 100 years since granting women the right to vote) thanks to consumption of accumulated wealth (in the form of financial, cultural, and genetic capital) and credit-supported liquidity,
– the arrangement produces a much greater amount of dysfunction before its collapse, and
– the collapse itself, which by now seems nearly inevitable, will cause a much greater amount of, and perhaps permanent, damage to the fabric of society, all within a very short timeframe, which we may attribute to the long buildup of fragilities that now pervade the entire system.
[1] Source: http://sci-hub.io/10.1111/roiw.12165#, explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V6s92p42UM
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-13 17:22:00 UTC