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The thing is, the people that do the systems planning of our economy and social structure have an incentive for every man to move into a productive lifestyle th
by betwixthewires 5y ago
The thing is, the people that do the systems planning of our economy and social structure have an incentive for every man to move into a productive lifestyle the minute he turns 18. But there's a misalignment of incentives; what appears productive for society is not productive for the young men in question.
So of course, in print, there's a crisis of young men staying at home with their parents til they're 30. But for young men, there's a crisis of incentive. Why on earth would a young man want to go give half his waking life to barely pay his own rent, then run on the treadmill that is modern online dating for, at best, meaningless hedonistic interactions with maybe, maybe not, women he's attracted to?
What it comes down to is that men have no incentive to do anything other than low effort, intangible self service, because the other alternative is just a more expensive version of the exact same thing.
- giantg2 5y agoI have a family to support. If I realized just how bad the corporate world was, I would have stayed single, bought some land, and quit my job once I had enough money saved for a safety net so I could do a low effort job.
- sokoloff 5y agoMuch of our life’s joy comes from what amounts to “meaningless hedonistic interactions”. It’s not that surprising that after having a taste of that in college or early adulthood that people sign up for that trade. I did, and I’d do it again.
- betwixthewires 5y agoI've had my share of them too. They're great. It's not going to motivate me to try to one day afford a 4 bedroom house though, if that's all the future has in store for me. You're not getting career men with those prospects.
- CyberDildonics 5y agothe people that do the systems planning of our economy and social structure Who are these people and are they in the room with us now?
- betwixthewires 5y agoOh come on. I'm not talking about the Illuminati here, I'm talking about the heads, advisers and important employees of executive departments like HUD, the Treasury, the FED, things like that. If you'd done a little thinking before responding maybe you'd have considered that. Unless you think our society is just entirely unmanaged?
- krageon 5y agoYou could perhaps have stated it as politicians and bureaucrats instead of "people", which would have made it more obvious to the reader you meant the government at large.
- CyberDildonics 5y agoYou think they plan our social structure?
- betwixthewires 5y agoAspects of it, absolutely. It's not even a secret, I'm not talking about some secret conspiracy. Social structures are largely a game of incentives, and the government agencies have a pretty powerful toolkit as far as incentives go. Here's an example, it is openly stated that the government maintains an inflation rate to discourage saving and encourage spending to stimulate the economy. This is a deliberate attempt to influence the culture of the US, and it works. We have a consumer culture where everyone buys services and cheap stuff and nobody saves money, the stated goal of these fiscal policies.
- CyberDildonics 5y agoInstead of "people controlling our social structure" it seems like you wanted a hyperbolic way to say "people don't save enough money".
- betwixthewires 5y ago