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I'm with the other poster. Child experience and their memories will vary greatly (mainly around socioeconomic status). I can't help but be afraid this will onl
by Loughla 7y ago
I'm with the other poster. Child experience and their memories will vary greatly (mainly around socioeconomic status).
I can't help but be afraid this will only bake in the inequality already present.
For my kids, this means more enrichment time, more time spent outside exploring the woods and streams around our home, and generally more quality creative time.
For the family down the street, this means more time in an abusive/shitty situation, less food, and more instability in the present and near future.
I feel like this is going to have a real, lasting impact on inequality, and not in a good way.
As an example; my grandfather talks about the great depression. He always says it wasn't that bad. But his family were already dirt-poor subsistence farmers. So for them, it was just less noise from other people. They had food, they had water, they had livestock.
But for my grandmother, who lived in town and was the daughter of a banker, the experience was very, very different.
And you could tell by the way they acted. Grandpa was free to give out food/money to anyone who he thought had a need. Grandma hid silver and various other valuables in floorboards and in wall-slats.
I can't help but feel like this is going to have a similar outcome for many people.
- finnh 7y agoSociety-wide, though, the Great Depression led to the New Deal, which radically reduced inequality, created our first social safety net, and set the stage for decades of public policy whose net effect was to reduce inequality. Hopefully we will see another silver lining with such lasting impact on society. [edit: typo s/last/lasting/]
- Loughla 7y agoI don't know enough about it to infer anything. Is there anyone reading this thread that can speak to political leadership and social will today compared to immediately before the New Deal? My take is that we're at a place in politics where any positive change is very unlikely. Maybe I'm wrong.