dasein Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Also, disregard slanted, anti-woman "brojornalism," especially when it's oozing with bitter rage, self righteousness, self pity and ignorance. Women spend more, and spend more profligately. The boundless female luxury addiction in the U.S. is what is most responsible for the mortgage bubble, thus the current economic crisis, even moreso than Wall Street/Gov collusion. "Gimme MY MCMANSION!! and a bunch of Kustom Krap to go in IT!!! I deserve it because they told me I can haz everything!!" led us all to ruin. How's that for "brojornalism?"
Queen Zenobia Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Women spend more, and spend more profligately. The boundless female luxury addiction in the U.S. is what is most responsible for the mortgage bubble, thus the current economic crisis, even moreso than Wall Street/Gov collusion. "Gimme MY MCMANSION!! and a bunch of Kustom Krap to go in IT!!! I deserve it because they told me I can haz everything!!" led us all to ruin. How's that for "brojornalism?" Interesting thought. I'm not sure if anyone's ever tried to apply gender relations to analyze Keynsian economics or Public Choice theory, but it certainly deserves some serious study. I always thought the housing bubble was directly attributable to the housing policies that emerged from the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s (thus predating this idea of "modern" American women being the problem) when they tried to gin up a housing boom to "stimulate the economy". Like most New Deal programs and ideas, it was misguided but still ended up in the progressive liberal hall of fame.
Citizen Erased Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Women spend more, and spend more profligately. The boundless female luxury addiction in the U.S. is what is most responsible for the mortgage bubble, thus the current economic crisis, even moreso than Wall Street/Gov collusion. "Gimme MY MCMANSION!! and a bunch of Kustom Krap to go in IT!!! I deserve it because they told me I can haz everything!!" led us all to ruin. How's that for "brojornalism?" Please post supporting sources to back up your "facts".
dasein Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Interesting thought. Was being facetious in adopting a similar tone to all the pro woman antimale "journalism" and "research" I see these days. There is an obnoxious example in this month's "Fast Company" titled "Girls are Better than Boys" or somesuch. Women don't tend to like it when the propaganda is targetted at them. I don't blame them. The causes of the economic collapse, though. lays at all our doors, not any one class or gender. If someone sells you what is obviously snake oil, is it their fault for duping you, or your fault for knowing it was too good to be true and buying it anyway? Both, and that sums up the mortgage collapse IMO. I do believe that the consumption business model in the U.S. gov/corp complex currently involves getting as much disposable income in female hands and the hands of the young.
Queen Zenobia Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Was being facetious in adopting a similar tone to all the pro woman antimale "journalism" and "research" I see these days. There is an obnoxious example in this month's "Fast Company" titled "Girls are Better than Boys" or somesuch. Women don't tend to like it when the propaganda is targetted at them. I don't blame them. The causes of the economic collapse, though. lays at all our doors, not any one class or gender. If someone sells you what is obviously snake oil, is it their fault for duping you, or your fault for knowing it was too good to be true and buying it anyway? Both, and that sums up the mortgage collapse IMO. I do believe that the consumption business model in the U.S. gov/corp complex currently involves getting as much disposable income in female hands and the hands of the young. The only thing that I would have to disagree with here is that last bit (which I bolded). If it were really about getting more disposable income into the hands of young people Social Security would have been gotten rid of years ago. No program currently in existence does more to transfer wealth from poor to rich and from young to old than Social Security does. And I do think the topic of consumer/debt culture and gender does deserve serious academic study. There are already several studies dealing with gender and developmental economics, and foreign aid programs. I see no reason why the same approach can't be used to study the developed world, including the US.
Queen Zenobia Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 By "young" I meant children. Well then yes, absolutely. Every questionable government policy is always "for the children". It's a line right up there with "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".
dasein Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 One thing I've always wondered is what % of LS posters are employed by government or by government dependent private sector as opposed to true private sector. I think there's a negative correlation between intelligence, reasoning capacity, and working in the public sector. In a past life I had to negotiate with lots of federal bureaucrats. They were universally bottom of the barrel... mostly complete idiots. Same on down the line from state to local, worse even. IMO, once the rate of public sector and gov dependent private sector employment rises above 5%, things start to get shaky. At 10% or higher, the economy becomes the anemic weakling we have been experiencing since the mid 70s, with a new "crisis" every 2-4 years. A healthy economy can readily absorb lots of noise and volatility, a sick, overregulated, overbureaucratized economy with a government unduly involved in social engineering is floored by the slightest breeze. These things seem so obvious, yet we rarely hear politicians describing as such. The people are figuring things out though, Ron Paul doesn't get 20% of the Republican Primary vote otherwise. So the point of all that is that my POV of the economic collapse centers on regulatory drag, improper government social engineering leading to corruption, and hyperbureaucratization (too many public sector and public sector dependent employees). Without those factors, most of the big crises we have faced over the last 40 years, starting with the inflation of the 70s, either don't exist or become mosquito bites on a healthy beast. That's my political diatribe of the day and has nothing to do with gender. LOL.
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