Indeed it is hard to imagine the grind of life that was the lot of most people until pretty recently. Most of our "heritage industry" sanitises the more distant past by really focussing on the stately homes, castles and grand religious monuments. Only occassionally does one get to see the "third world" existence my ancestors lived until two generations ago. And even the modern third world has elecricty, phones and medicine. When, in 1906, the old age pension was established here it was set at age 75, mens life expectancy was then just 52, it what overall was one of the richest lands on the planet. Intriguingly in Europe generally the smallest "gender pay gaps" are in the poorest still largely agricultural countries, because everyone has to lend a hand to everything. Unprecedentedly widespread luxury, long lives well beyond human reproductive lifespans control over fertility and you have something entirely new and something that has happened in a blink of an eye in even recorded history let alone the 100,000s years of human existence. We have "affluenza" in health and "luxury beliefs" as you say.
" Intriguingly in Europe generally the smallest "gender pay gaps" are in the poorest still largely agricultural countries, because everyone has to lend a hand to everything"
Right. But I would argue that the 'gender pay gap' is actually a measure of female privilege anyway, and NOT oppression (credit to Karen and Alison of the Honey Badgers for this observation).
It is men's enormous subsidies to women (both voluntary and involuntary via taxation) that allow women to choose lower paying jobs and earn less. For every dollar a man spends he must earn $1.23 and for every dollar a woman spends she only has to earn 77 cents of it.
As usual feminists have spun this as patriarchal oppression, and men have swallowed the bait.
Also, the gender pay gap assumes jobs only pay with money. The kinds of jobs which women tend to choose are those which pay in social opportunities, safety, comfort, fun and job satisfaction, easy commute, safety and cleanliness. That is part of the 'pay'. That form of pay only benefits the person being paid, and cannot be divided up and handed other to anyone else.
We push men into jobs which pay almost exclusively in terms of money (rather than safety, comfort, flexibility etc) because monetary pay can easily be taken from that man (taxed) and handed to women, and men can also be persuaded to hand it over to women by paying for the meal, and paying the bills. Paying men in money (converting his labour into coins) is in this sense a form of parasitism (to put the most cynical spin on it).
If we equalised pay between men and women (as feminists pretend they want), the standard of living for women would go down, not up.
The 'wage gap' is just another feminist shaming tactic (to keep men in line), not a real campaign. If it was a real cause we'd see feminists choosing high paid jobs and then spending their high earnings on men so they could afford to be florists, or children's authors or run their own pottery barn... or be stay at home dads. I think most men would enjoy such 'oppression'.
BRILLIANT! It is clear that Bolshevism is built into the legal system, seemingly everything from child support & alimony to FAKE rape claims against MALE celebrities is just an agenda to re distribute wealth from MEN to wo-MEN. On a more humorous note: I'm sure glad Elon Musk got rid of all those worthless fe-MALES with those fluff jobs at Twitter who were censoring everyone.
Indeed it is hard to imagine the grind of life that was the lot of most people until pretty recently. Most of our "heritage industry" sanitises the more distant past by really focussing on the stately homes, castles and grand religious monuments. Only occassionally does one get to see the "third world" existence my ancestors lived until two generations ago. And even the modern third world has elecricty, phones and medicine. When, in 1906, the old age pension was established here it was set at age 75, mens life expectancy was then just 52, it what overall was one of the richest lands on the planet. Intriguingly in Europe generally the smallest "gender pay gaps" are in the poorest still largely agricultural countries, because everyone has to lend a hand to everything. Unprecedentedly widespread luxury, long lives well beyond human reproductive lifespans control over fertility and you have something entirely new and something that has happened in a blink of an eye in even recorded history let alone the 100,000s years of human existence. We have "affluenza" in health and "luxury beliefs" as you say.
" Intriguingly in Europe generally the smallest "gender pay gaps" are in the poorest still largely agricultural countries, because everyone has to lend a hand to everything"
Right. But I would argue that the 'gender pay gap' is actually a measure of female privilege anyway, and NOT oppression (credit to Karen and Alison of the Honey Badgers for this observation).
It is men's enormous subsidies to women (both voluntary and involuntary via taxation) that allow women to choose lower paying jobs and earn less. For every dollar a man spends he must earn $1.23 and for every dollar a woman spends she only has to earn 77 cents of it.
As usual feminists have spun this as patriarchal oppression, and men have swallowed the bait.
Also, the gender pay gap assumes jobs only pay with money. The kinds of jobs which women tend to choose are those which pay in social opportunities, safety, comfort, fun and job satisfaction, easy commute, safety and cleanliness. That is part of the 'pay'. That form of pay only benefits the person being paid, and cannot be divided up and handed other to anyone else.
We push men into jobs which pay almost exclusively in terms of money (rather than safety, comfort, flexibility etc) because monetary pay can easily be taken from that man (taxed) and handed to women, and men can also be persuaded to hand it over to women by paying for the meal, and paying the bills. Paying men in money (converting his labour into coins) is in this sense a form of parasitism (to put the most cynical spin on it).
If we equalised pay between men and women (as feminists pretend they want), the standard of living for women would go down, not up.
The 'wage gap' is just another feminist shaming tactic (to keep men in line), not a real campaign. If it was a real cause we'd see feminists choosing high paid jobs and then spending their high earnings on men so they could afford to be florists, or children's authors or run their own pottery barn... or be stay at home dads. I think most men would enjoy such 'oppression'.
Yes pay gaps are slippery things. Of course the smallest such gaps existed behind the Iron curtain.
BRILLIANT! It is clear that Bolshevism is built into the legal system, seemingly everything from child support & alimony to FAKE rape claims against MALE celebrities is just an agenda to re distribute wealth from MEN to wo-MEN. On a more humorous note: I'm sure glad Elon Musk got rid of all those worthless fe-MALES with those fluff jobs at Twitter who were censoring everyone.