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They immediately talk, twice!, about poorer people's wages stagnating compared with the rich, and just skate on past that to talk about men. I'm not sure I'd s
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
They immediately talk, twice!, about poorer people's wages stagnating compared with the rich, and just skate on past that to talk about men.
I'm not sure I'd say i'd expect better from Jacobin, but it's still kind of weird to just let that slide past without comment.
> My overall understanding of these labor market trends over the last few decades is that we’ve seen a narrowing of the gender wage gap, for the reasons we just discussed, and _a sharp widening of the class wage gap_. They’re pulling in different directions. So _the gap between the median and the top has gotten much wider_, but the gap between men and women at each level has gotten narrower.
That's the "centrist" (maybe, by US standards) think tank guy (with my emphasis) and the Jacobin guy complaining about what the left isn't talking about replies with:
> I want to ask about the maleness part of this...
- medvezhenok 3y agoThat’s partly because of associative mating. High income people are more likely to pair up with other high income people (than they were in the past, for various reasons). This exacerbates inequality
- valbaca 3y agoUsing the "culture wars" to 1) sell books and 2) hide the real problem: which is class warfare. Billionares sucking the life out of our planet and people and are happy that we're squabbling over how "the left treats men" instead of looking up to ones that are causing a global mental health crisis