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How did we get we busy? (or did we?) Average American watches 5 hours of TV per day: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/average-american-watch.. http://www.

by chondos 12y ago

How did we get we busy? (or did we?) Average American watches 5 hours of TV per day: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/average-american-watch.. http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/average-american-watch.... Perhaps people spend more time at work then they used to, but while not at work they spend way less time working on things like mowing the lawn, cooking, washing clothes, ETC. Women blaming men for them being too busy need to weight their options IMO. If you are too busy, quit your job and stay home. To maintain the quality of life that existed while Keynes wrote this book, a single income is often adequate. It's not worth killing yourself over. I think what much of what explains the wealth gap is free trade and illegal immigration. We import everything from China today. We would not allow these sweat-shops in our country with children working in dangerous conditions for pennies an hour. We wouldn't allow it here, but we do support it by buying these products. This breaks the whole premise that Keynes was basing his predictions on (Illegal immigrant employment as well). People can get rich paying illegal workers almost nothing, or importing a product from China and marking up it's price by 8-10x. This throws things out of the balance that he envisioned.

navait 12y ago
Or, you know, male significant others could take up an equal amount of responsibility in the household.
- lmm 12y ago
  Most of the "responsibility" is dumb things that don't actually need doing; more equal households are generally more equal not because a man's doing more but because a woman's doing less. US employers make it hard for professionals to work part-time and hard for those who do to get promoted, so it's probably better to have one partner focus solely on gaining income and the other taking care of the household. AIUI the evidence is that both men and women are happier when they adopt the traditional roles than when they reverse or try to balance them.

by chondos 12y ago

navait 12y ago

Or, you know, male significant others could take up an equal amount of responsibility in the household.

lmm 12y ago
Most of the "responsibility" is dumb things that don't actually need doing; more equal households are generally more equal not because a man's doing more but because a woman's doing less. US employers make it hard for professionals to work part-time and hard for those who do to get promoted, so it's probably better to have one partner focus solely on gaining income and the other taking care of the household. AIUI the evidence is that both men and women are happier when they adopt the traditional roles than when they reverse or try to balance them.