Our broader social set-up, designed to serve the relentless craving of financier capitalism and its need to ever-expanding GDP, makes this sort of inevitable. Spending time caring for people, whether family, friends, or strangers, does not boost GDP. Competition for sex, money, and prestige does. Thus the media are incentivized to echo and reinforce the empty commercialist Broness. https://laboristmovement.substack.com/p/the-harm-that-the-financier-economy?r=2gg9iv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web The female commercialist influencers serve the same gods of commerce, just with a different spin. One of my law school professors, Clyde Ferguson, had been US ambassador in one of the African countries and observed that they noticed the locals who visited the embassy were particularly drawn to Playboy magazines. They assumed this was for the obvious reason but made a study of it and found that no, they were focused on the advertisements for that commercialist Bro lifestyle. It is a powerful force.
“You pathologize men for noticing the obvious incentives of hypergamy, and then offer union membership as the cure. Truly bizarre.”
I think that she is merely reflecting on, not the men’s noticing the incentives, but rather those men who make the efforts to follow hypergamy as well as our *society’s* current lack of alternatives for them to follow. Rather than criticism of her for this, why not offer possible solutions, yourself, if you think that they should be offered?
Our broader social set-up, designed to serve the relentless craving of financier capitalism and its need to ever-expanding GDP, makes this sort of inevitable. Spending time caring for people, whether family, friends, or strangers, does not boost GDP. Competition for sex, money, and prestige does. Thus the media are incentivized to echo and reinforce the empty commercialist Broness. https://laboristmovement.substack.com/p/the-harm-that-the-financier-economy?r=2gg9iv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web The female commercialist influencers serve the same gods of commerce, just with a different spin. One of my law school professors, Clyde Ferguson, had been US ambassador in one of the African countries and observed that they noticed the locals who visited the embassy were particularly drawn to Playboy magazines. They assumed this was for the obvious reason but made a study of it and found that no, they were focused on the advertisements for that commercialist Bro lifestyle. It is a powerful force.
I don't know who these 'influencers' are, but acknowledging that hypergamy exists isn't 'leading men astray'—it’s simply observing reality.
You pathologize men for noticing the obvious incentives of hypergamy, and then offer union membership as the cure. Truly bizarre.
“You pathologize men for noticing the obvious incentives of hypergamy, and then offer union membership as the cure. Truly bizarre.”
I think that she is merely reflecting on, not the men’s noticing the incentives, but rather those men who make the efforts to follow hypergamy as well as our *society’s* current lack of alternatives for them to follow. Rather than criticism of her for this, why not offer possible solutions, yourself, if you think that they should be offered?