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Comment by Jeema101 | Hacker News Reader

The article seems to contain a lot of hand-wringing about upper class' beliefs allegedly harming lower class families, but I don't see any mention about the main change in the labor force since 1960 - namely the participation rate of women. Men probably work less nowadays simply because it's easier to do in a two-income household vs a one-income household.

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The article also said "Those who sit at or near the apex of the social ladder (who decide what behaviors are prestigious) have decided that family stability is unimportant."

Who is at the apex of the social ladder? Am I?

I wish the author had expanded on this a little more because that feels like a high leverage point.

So your hypothesis is that factory jobs have not indeed dried up, and it's just all the women taking up those factory jobs instead?

> So your hypothesis is that factory jobs have not indeed dried up, and it's just all the women taking up those factory jobs instead?

No, the hypothesis is that men don't have as much responsibility. If they fail to provide women cover it.

The destruction of the traditional structures has its effects, good and bad. I dont' believe that women participating is a bad thing, on the contrary but new challenges come and taking an absolutist freedom stance without fixing the bugs that arise is a bad outcome.

It seems to me that nowadays social structure and norms are all in the ideal or virtual world, but the world is still physical and does not really care for ideals. As it never did.

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