Rather than struggling to rebalance the division of labor between breadwinning and caregiving, why not spread the roles out more broadly among a greater number of committed adults?

HMM YEAH WHY NOT HMMMMMM

“Given all of the physical, financial, mental, and emotional labors of raising children,” a college professor colleague of mine explained to me, “why wouldn’t you want to spread that around?” He spent over a decade as one of three legal parents to his now adult twins, and although he believes the arrangement worked out well for everyone involved, he preferred to remain anonymous because formal tri-parenting is still so rare.

We used to fucking do that before capitalism crammed us all into nuclear families, and now that capitalism has entered decay we're finding out that we need extended families. But do they recommend moving in with parents or siblings? Nah. If families didn't keep buying new houses then how would the economy grow???

Finally, as increasing numbers of millennials and members of Generation Z decide to forgo childbearing in protest against climate change, the housing crisis, or the growing precarity of their financial futures in a brutal gig economy, the growing acceptance of alloparenting might offer unique opportunities for them to experience parenthood. Rather than struggling to rebalance the division of labor between breadwinning and caregiving, why not spread the necessary roles out more broadly among a greater number of committed adults?

"Finally, as increasing numbers of people see the end of the world approaching and wish only for a quick death, the growing acceptacne of alloparenting might allow them to get a taste of what was once a fundamental human experience!"

You will own nothing and be happy.

"things cost more!" ok zoomer

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1103408

Kept seeing this clip of Barry Sternlicht laughing about a “nice little recession” so I thought I’d share.

For what it’s worth, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard someone hoping for a recession. My stepdad told me this and I don’t understand why he’d want that.

According to him the only way to combat inflation is for us to go into a recession. But wouldn’t that cause a different form of chaos?

I’m uneducated on inflation vs recession but I know for a fact through lived experience that inflation sucks, and I’ve heard recession is also shit so why ask for one?

Anyway if this doesn’t belong here please let me know so I can post it somewhere else, I’m still getting used to what posts belong in what communities.

What do we call this? Early stage capitalism? What the Western world is on track to return to? Forshadow capitalism?

This is when miners were paid in company currency and lived in company houses and shopped at a company store.

We are at 1.3°C above pre-industrial average temperature. Scientists think we will pass 2.5°C.

An NDC is an abbreviation for 'nationally determined contribution' i.e. what the world says they will do to mitigate climate change.

"The best estimate of peak temperature in the twenty-first century (projected mostly for 2100 when temperature continues to rise) is in the range of 2.1–2.9 °C depending on the underlying assumptions.52 Without implementation of any conditional elements of NDCs, the best estimate of temperature change is 2.5–2.9 °C warming. Assuming full implementation of NDCs, including all conditional elements, the best estimate for peak global mean temperature is 2.1–2.4 °C."

https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cma2022_04.pdf https://nitter.net/EliotJacobson/status/1683535568268050432

There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of "planned obsolescence".

un-fukken-believable! biden tries to make us all drink beer...from plants, as animals!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1284414

See "A Theory of Justice".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice#The_%22original_position%22

from: https://mooretoons.com/comic/fetch-2017/hypothermia/

Something something, paper tiger, Mao was right.

A couple lib conclusions, but a good exploration of yet another instance of enshitification of the internet monopolies. Also it mentions adNauseam and I like to remind people that Google banned adNauseam directly in Chromium.