21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 28 Jan \ on: The Men's Party culture
One interpretation of this is that The State is competing with men or at least The State is being asked to compete with men. Though, it's unclear to me if women become conservative after marriage or just tend get married if they are conservative. The former is consistent with The State competing with men.
A related idea that I also like is The Market competing with family members. For good or for bad, intentional or not, institutions change whatever came before them. It's just especially disturbing to see institutions replace roles that are fundamental to our nature and do an awful job of it. Worse, when institutions form in a bottom-up way only to do awful jobs, it suggests we were doing an even worse job before they arrived.
Just as it's generally a pretty bad deal when the market is asked to assume a bunch of responsibility that community previously handled, it's probably the sign of a poisoned world when the state takes it on.
And then you occasionally have the best of both, e.g., taking care of old people is now almost wholly a market service, which then at nearly the speed of light becomes a state service after the old people burn all their income so they don't have to pay any of it on their own care. I can't think of a more pathological example than that one, although maybe there are some.
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