The Marxists here are naive children who have no clue about actual communism.
I have a Russian wife and many Russian friends that grew up in the communist Soviet dictatorship. Idiot American millienials have no idea what socialism or communism is. Not one of my Russian friends believes in socialism. In fact my wife is much more right wing than I am.
We need farsighted leaders to understand the dangers of communism fundamentalism and anti Americanism.
We will have make deals with dictators and can’t afford to be always politically correct.
I’m not sure I understand. The policy of counting both incomes towards mortgage application increases the likelihood of DINK or even one or two fewer kids. I’ve heard a number of parents say “I’d love to have more, but can’t afford it/need to go back to work.”
I’m just talking about what policies could encourage more kids.
I thought that the mortgage restriction policy was to encourage one of parents to stay home with kids. Thus, DINK couples don’t have to be affected by that.
However, my main point was any government policy to control human desire for success (regardless of gender) will result in unintended outcome.
The policy is eliminating the benefit of double income. Why should double income couple be discriminated against the single income couple who make exactly same household income?
From my perspective, the best policy to encourage woman (who aspires for her own success as well as happy family) to have more children is family friendly policy equally applicable to men and women.
I am reading the book called “In praise of idleness by Bertrand Russell” and like his idea of “letting people to work less hours while not decreasing(or even increasing) workforce”. People can make meaningful contribution to mankind with thier idle time including spending time with thier children and providing quality education Why don’t men deserve such pleasure as much as woman?
What success? Success is not just materialistic success. It’s a much better success to give birth to and raise a good next generation human being than working like a dog and endulging in unnecessary materialistic possessions.
People should work to live, not live to work. If a person is going to be the end of his or her DNA tree, what’s the purpose to work like a dog for life?
It’s a much more meaningful success to make a new baby and contribute your DNA to the fat far future than writing some stupid software.
I am reading this book about Lee Kuan Yew. The guy was pretty hard core. This idea of his is almost exactly the same as mine. I believe I even wrote about it on one of the threads.
Not really. Humans will become extinct eventually. Much better to indulge in the present and have fun than worrying about having to carry a part of your genes/legacy into the future.
Equality in the eyes of God and the eternal worth of each human being, never meant equality in what God gifted each individual with.
From a Capitalistic point of view, Yew is right–if you don’t reward the person who works hardest with more, why work at all. Everyone here has been saying the same thing, of course.
Unequal outcome is the motivation for the human to survive. Without unequal outcome, human would all starve to death or become food to other animals. Socialism will destroy this mechanism and make humans became history. But resilient humans will fight and take down the Soviet Union 2.0
I’m not sure I agree with that, but I think you have to have full motivation to work your hardest at whatever you can do. If the motivation was that you were fed, and that everyone was equally fed, but everyone worked their hardest, that wouldn’t be a bad thing.
What’s bad is when one group who is just as capable of putting in effort, doesn’t want to work and wants others to do it for them so that they can live. Take a multi-generation household. The grandparents work by watching the grandkids, cleaning, and cooking dinner, and the middle generation works to support everyone. But if the grandparents think they can just sit around and do nothing while the grandkids are in daycare, and the kids work and clean the house and cook, that’s not going to make a successful house.
sadly women are indoctrinated by feminists that raising future generations is of lower contributions than outshining the men.
