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FWIW, the level of prosperity that we currently enjoy in the developed world is probably a once-every-100-million-years kind of event. It's a result of increasi
by toasterlovin 8y ago
FWIW, the level of prosperity that we currently enjoy in the developed world is probably a once-every-100-million-years kind of event. It's a result of increasing technological sophistication concurrent with reduced fertility. At any other point in human history, you'd be a damned fool to cut off family without a lot of thought and consideration. Family + significant other is the only safety net that most humans have ever really been able to count on.
Editing to add: and if you think your family won't be important in your life because you live in the developed world, you should take a look at current European politics, then talk to older Europeans about the second war (or to Eastern Europeans about life under communism).
- lgleason 8y agoThis 100000% over.
- nate_meurer 8y ago> Family + significant other is the only safety net that most humans have ever really been able to count on. I think this is true, but it's also one of the most common and powerful ways in which abusers control their victims. Often, the most difficult challenge that victims of abuse and domestic violence face is overcoming their dependence, financial and otherwise, on their abusers.
- sigi45 8y agoI read an article about people from Syria coming to Germany without parents and talking about a level of freedom they never experienced before. Not having all your family around you and controlling you and living after there worldviews.