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>If you you shorten the timespan and only look at cultural changes since, say, the 1970s, though, it seems we've sacrificed a lot of what makes us human (commun
by Aunche 5y ago
>If you you shorten the timespan and only look at cultural changes since, say, the 1970s, though, it seems we've sacrificed a lot of what makes us human (community, interconnectedness, a sense of wonder about the future etc.) at the altar of free market economics
Free market economics didn't tell people to spend less time with their families and more time consuming entertainment media. Moreover, the argument that we have culturally regressed since the 70s only makes sense from the perspective of a white male.
- AussieWog93 5y ago>Free market economics didn't tell people to spend less time with their families and more time consuming entertainment media. It literally did. I've probably seen tens of thousands of advertisements for games consoles, films and Netflix-style streaming services. >from the perspective of a white male Many women would disagree with you on the "male" part.
- WC3w6pXxgGd 5y agoFree market economics is the idea of humans having a Right to Property. It isn't a thing, let alone capable of "telling" you something. You're confusing advertising with a philosophical concept of freedom. To think there's an alternative to freedom is frightening. Just the 20th century alone is chock full of examples of what happens when some people try to strip others of this natural Right.
- Aunche 5y agoAdvertisement can only sell something that people want. If we swapped all video game advertising with Math Olympiad advertising, we both still know which one is going to be much more popular. Games with zero marketing budgets have no problem selling millions of copies. >Many women would disagree with you on the "male" part. And any woman with a professional job would disagree.
- inglor_cz 5y ago> And any woman with a professional job would disagree. My mother is going to be 70 in a few weeks, she is a highly regarded teacher of English, and in her opinion, a lot of things have gone downhill since the 1970s, and especially since the 1990s, though obviously not all of them. So there is your counterexample. People are complicated and stereotyping them (any woman with X) is bound to fail.
- Aunche 5y agoIt goes without saying that there is an exception to every rule, and it's a strawman to assume that I believe otherwise. By "professional job", I should have qualified that I mean careers traditionally dominated by men (e.g. business, lawyers, doctors).