Economic myopia about your own middle class upbringing. It's not that people CAN'T raise a child on one income today. It's that they don't want to live the economic lives that our parents and grandparents tolerated. For instance, (and I know this is a US thing) I live in a house three times as big as the one I grew up in. There have been at various times, two new cars in my driveway rather than the one very used one I rode in as a kid. We travel all over the country on vacation as a family now, rather than the one annual trip to the beach a couple hours away in my own childhood. I could go and on, but it's not that people CAN'T afford to have a mom stay at home family today. It's that they don't want to make the economic sacrifices which would cause them to live as their parents and grandparents did.
"I don't want to be one of those women who point a finger and say you're doing it wrong" Probably should have thought of that before you made this video. I know women who stayed home with kids and those who didn't. They certainly may have felt personally conflicted not because of finger pointing in their own personal social network but because they HAD a choice and choices always lead to "what if's".
Second comment I have seen of yours. She clearly got under your skin. Whether she is middle class or not. It can take someone from inside the tribe to be brave enough to stand up and ask important and difficult questions, instead of simply accepting everything.
I've said it before & will keep saying it, you can be a fulltime mother if you are prepared to live a different lifestyle. We brought up 4 children on 1 income but had no holidays, went a long time with no car, didn't participate in what " everybody " was doing, lived frugally etc etc. Now my children live like that too. You have to drop out of the consumer culture.
You can give your life up for children and they turn into their own person or become like the man you don't want to be with anymore and then at the end of your life you're ashamed for not having enough to support yourself on or having gain someone else's Social Security when you tried to better yourself
Come on, guys... think. All your talk is missing the point of our current progress. To suggest that "AI is a very fancy auto correct" is to show either your profound ignorance of what AI is becoming or a willing blindness to the very real advances that have been made in the field. For instance, there is nothing even remotely resembling "auto correct" when Alpha Go Zero can not only beat the world's top Go player but do it repeatedly... and even come up with new and highly creative moves totally on its own. As far as transhumanism... well, have you looked around lately? Plain old humanism might have been great 10,000 years ago, but we are now living in an age wholly unsuited to our genetic predispositions. To paraphrase (somebody whose name I can't remember), we are playing with God-like powers but using our monkey-like brains. Transhumanism will happen, probably with a lot of mistakes and tragedies, but the temptation to make ourselves bigger, stronger, healthier, happier and smarter will be too much to turn our backs on.
.... and look where it is getting us! Happier? Healthier? Stronger? (What does that mean, anyway?) May your waking moment be enough to teach you humility without despair!
As for quoting Thomas Aquinas here is why no one will listen in the 21st Century: "Your Excellency inquired whether it is allowable for you at some time and in what way to make an exaction upon the Jews. To which question (proposed in this unqualified way) it can be answered that although, as the laws say, the Jews by reason of their fault are sentenced to perpetual servitude and thus the lords of the lands in which they dwell may take things from them as though they were their own-with, nonetheless, this restraint observed that the necessary subsidies of life in no way be taken from them," - "Letter on the Treatment of Jews" (1271)
Economic myopia about your own middle class upbringing. It's not that people CAN'T raise a child on one income today. It's that they don't want to live the economic lives that our parents and grandparents tolerated. For instance, (and I know this is a US thing) I live in a house three times as big as the one I grew up in. There have been at various times, two new cars in my driveway rather than the one very used one I rode in as a kid. We travel all over the country on vacation as a family now, rather than the one annual trip to the beach a couple hours away in my own childhood. I could go and on, but it's not that people CAN'T afford to have a mom stay at home family today. It's that they don't want to make the economic sacrifices which would cause them to live as their parents and grandparents did.
My mother said exactly the same in the 70’s. 50 years ago!
@@carolynenochs9139 My father carpooled to work, so he only paid the gas costs once a week instead of every day. It's about choices.
Woohoo for big houses and lots of cars. You've made it!?? Enjoy!
@@daddycool228 Sure but everything comes with a price, both literal and figurative.
I entirely agree with your take. The standards of living have increased tremendously.
thank you
"I don't want to be one of those women who point a finger and say you're doing it wrong"
Probably should have thought of that before you made this video. I know women who stayed home with kids and those who didn't. They certainly may have felt personally conflicted not because of finger pointing in their own personal social network but because they HAD a choice and choices always lead to "what if's".
Second comment I have seen of yours. She clearly got under your skin. Whether she is middle class or not. It can take someone from inside the tribe to be brave enough to stand up and ask important and difficult questions, instead of simply accepting everything.
@@daddycool228 Did I overshoot the comment quota?
I've said it before & will keep saying it, you can be a fulltime mother if you are prepared to live a different lifestyle. We brought up 4 children on 1 income but had
no holidays, went a long time with no car, didn't participate in what " everybody " was doing, lived frugally etc etc. Now my children live like that too. You have to
drop out of the consumer culture.
Quite true.
With all of the new tech. Why can’t we get good cameras . ???
You can give your life up for children and they turn into their own person or become like the man you don't want to be with anymore and then at the end of your life you're ashamed for not having enough to support yourself on or having gain someone else's Social Security when you tried to better yourself
It's evil.
What is evil?
@@ji8044 Depends on context. Trad Prot considers the RCC to be evil and vice versa. It is lazy to expect absolute definitions free of context ;-)
@@williambranch4283 Oh you're out there in a different fight from this video. I see that now. Got it.
Let them find out the hard way
Find out what?
@@ji8044 That they failed big time with their woke cult matey
@@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf Sorry to disturb you. I had no idea you were one of the poorly educated. Mea culpa.
Come on, guys... think. All your talk is missing the point of our current progress. To suggest that "AI is a very fancy auto correct" is to show either your profound ignorance of what AI is becoming or a willing blindness to the very real advances that have been made in the field. For instance, there is nothing even remotely resembling "auto correct" when Alpha Go Zero can not only beat the world's top Go player but do it repeatedly... and even come up with new and highly creative moves totally on its own. As far as transhumanism... well, have you looked around lately? Plain old humanism might have been great 10,000 years ago, but we are now living in an age wholly unsuited to our genetic predispositions. To paraphrase (somebody whose name I can't remember), we are playing with God-like powers but using our monkey-like brains. Transhumanism will happen, probably with a lot of mistakes and tragedies, but the temptation to make ourselves bigger, stronger, healthier, happier and smarter will be too much to turn our backs on.
.... and look where it is getting us! Happier? Healthier? Stronger? (What does that mean, anyway?) May your waking moment be enough to teach you humility without despair!
What we really need is a familial Uncle Tom's Cabin
As for quoting Thomas Aquinas here is why no one will listen in the 21st Century:
"Your Excellency inquired whether it is allowable for you at some time and in what way to make an exaction upon the Jews.
To which question (proposed in this unqualified way) it can be answered that although, as the laws say, the Jews by reason of their fault are sentenced to perpetual servitude and thus the lords of the lands in which they dwell may take things from them as though they were their own-with, nonetheless, this restraint observed that the necessary subsidies of life in no way be taken from them," - "Letter on the Treatment of Jews" (1271)