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Originally Posted by MartinSE
Totally agree. I do think most people start with single wage earner as "the good old days", and then sort of see the rest through rose colored glasses.
Personally, I think having to have two (or more) wage earners today is very common and very stressful. I have no recommendations on how to fix that, but, I think the BIG change is that after the depression people worked hard to ensure their children had a better life than they did. Then slowly just keeping up require two wages earners. That much stress - how to feed my family, how to pay for my children medicine, etc, etc, leads to depression and anxiety and that leads to anger and violence.
These used to be a saying, war can only occur in a country where the people feel they have nothing left to lose. We are approaching a minority feeling they have nothing left to lose.
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I think that's a whole lot of malarchy. Women working is not some new phenomenon. Blaming today's ills on both partners of a marriage working for a living doesn't add up at all, since this has been a thing since the Great Depression - and most people in the Villages hadn't even been born yet. Those who were, would probably not even remember it - they'd be in their 90s now and they would've been under 10 at the time.
You can't blame it on the internet either - it's been around since the 1980's. Social media actually predates the world wide web; the first dial-up bulletin board system went online in 1978.
Can't blame cable TV - that's been around since 1948 and was common in the 1980's.
I blame it on people who insist that something other than their own personal responsibility is the cause of it. You are responsible for the information you choose to absorb. There's nothing stopping any of us from checking sources, asking questions, challenging beliefs. If you don't do these things, then that is your choice - but it's also your choice to deprive yourself of knowledge, and you have no one to blame but yourself when you discover that other people might have different opinions based on different information that they've acquired.