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@bias
if people were free to just be loving parents and didn’t have to grind their asses off to get by while raising children, maybe we’d have a much more sociable and socialized population overall 🤷 oh well, get back to your wagecages fuckers, only thing that matters is oligarchs have expendable masses to hurl at their personally selected problems
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@vivacious
Honestly, I don't think it'd be THAT much better (even though it would be better for some people who take parenting seriously and care about their kids). Because parents are people too and they have their own lives and a lot of them would spend their newly acquired free time on themselves, instead of their kids. Also not all people are good at parenting, sometimes it would be genuinely worse if the children would spend more time with them. Besides, it would take a very long time to see any apparent change in our society as a whole. Plus maybe this isn't the problem. Look at how it's been in the past - people were a lot more socialized and sociable compared to what we have now. I think it's a huge bundle of things causing this big society degradation we have going on now right now. Life is speeding up, information is becoming less valuable, people tend to spend most of their free time on the internet instead of socializing or having time with their family. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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@bias
What’s it say about the perversion of our society that no one in a position of leadership is vocally advocating for this? Even if some of the parents wanted more free times for themselves: that’s a net positive as well, because they certainly need that at the same time. We have a population of people too anxious and scared to figure out anything about themselves other than that they can handle working a 9-5 to get by.
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@vivacious
True, but wouldn't we have to uproot the whole system to change it? How can someone in a position of leadership say for example "let's make the working time shorter", if they'd have to pay the same amount of money, for less work? Until some genius up there comes up with a system that works better, we just have to adapt. Get more education, spend more time focusing on building your future when you're young so that we don't have to work a 9-5 job. That's not something everyone is willing to do. That's why most people tend to be satisfied with this kinda of life (maybe not consciously, but I believe that what you are not changing, you are choosing). Not having enough time for proper parenting is a side effect, it's something that's affected by people's life choices. That's the system we have now and nobody have come up with a better one yet.
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