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Salaries haven’t kept up with productivity since 1965. In fact 1965 was an inflection point for a number of important social well-being metrics like health, edu
by User23 4y ago
Salaries haven’t kept up with productivity since 1965. In fact 1965 was an inflection point for a number of important social well-being metrics like health, education, and housing affordability. So what happened around 1965? Of course the Vietnam war is the pat answer. However of far more social import is the sexual revolution and the accompanying marketing of female hormonal birth control. As Dijkstra, of all people, observed, the pill was a true radical novelty and as such society wasn’t equipped to cope with it. It is to prior forms of contraception as the digital computer is to the slide rule or abacus: a paradigm shifting invention.
Western societies have been living in a state of sexual bulimia for the last four generations and we wonder why it’s become dysfunctional?
Social media addiction and its consequences belong largely in the effects category and not the causes one. But hey we now have millions of things to choose to stream and back in the early ‘60s there were only three channels so really we’re better off.
- hash07e 4y agoStop spreading hate! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Ac...
- saimiam 4y agoWouldn’t eliminating the risk of unplanned pregnancies lead to more promiscuous behaviours? How did the Pill lead to sexual “bulimia”?
- xjlin0 4y agoLooking between 1960 to 2020, the birth rate are declining everywhere except Muslim world, not just "western societies". Russia, China, Japan, etc, you name it. Even India is slowing down on the population growth a bit recently.
- Apocryphon 4y agoYeah, improvements to quality of life and socioeconomic development lead to lower fertility. Pretty sure this is an Industrial Revolution phenomenon that predates chemical contraception.
- User23 4y agoThere was a moderate downward trend over a couple centuries from around 7 to 4 children per woman. And then in the ‘60s it fell off a cliff[1]. [1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=US https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...