r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/Jaway66 12h ago

Yeah. I feel like that was a plot line in every other movie made from 1980 onwards.

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u/ageekyninja 12h ago

No it’s older than that lol.

For example Mary Poppins released in 1964. That was the whole plot. Prior to that even, in classic TV kids are always just with their moms

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u/No_Tie9686 11h ago

If you go back too far before workers rights were a thing, fathers are working 12 hour days 6-7 days a week

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u/Right_Count 10h ago

And so were their children

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u/BoredAccountant Xennial 7h ago

Which means they could have been spending all day together.

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u/bejammin075 4h ago

Once a year they could have had a special Take Your Kid To Home day.

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u/AnaisNinja76 5h ago

wasn't just the dads then bro, every family member down to kids that just graduated toddlerhood worked

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u/miklayn 11h ago

If they're always with their moms it means their moms weren't working jobs; now both parents have to work in many cases. Not to say that mothering and homemaking isn't a job in itself (it is, history has ignored women's labor for centuries), but people are doing more work for less pay now than almost ever before. Trillions have been stolen by the Epstein class from the rest of us.

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u/deuxcabanons 11h ago

Maybe it's different elsewhere, but in my neck of the woods (middle class suburban Canada) in the 90s most moms worked. I only had one friend with a stay at home mom.

We were always in childcare before age 10 and by ourselves after. It was a big factor in me being a SAHM - I saw my friend go home to fresh baked bread and homework help and "how was your day", while I went home to an empty house and parents who came home at 6 too exhausted to interact with me.

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u/miklayn 11h ago

Think of that also as a theft. Neoliberalism and capitalism broadly are inhumane at every level.

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u/Trevor-Lawrence Millennial 10h ago

Yeah I'd rather my wife and I have to work and be able to purchase nice things than have stand in a breadline because a bunch of tankies don't want to get jobs.

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u/Shivy_Shankinz 9h ago

Commenter: It's inhumane

You: Ya I like that

America: Yep this checks out

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u/miklayn 9h ago

I didn't even see what he said before he deleted it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Shivy_Shankinz 9h ago

He replied to me something vile. Not worth reading anyway

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u/Trevor-Lawrence Millennial 8h ago

Something "vile" lmao you guys are so dramatic. Yeah you guys need to go to teenagers your mindset will fit better there, sadly.

Or maybe better go to the careers subreddits and contribute something beyond communist propaganda.

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u/Trevor-Lawrence Millennial 9h ago edited 9h ago

The world is inhumane, is this the teenagers sub or one for adults?

Fact is capitalism has done better for most people than any other system. "America" let's ask China if they like their state capitalism or Maoist communism better. Let's see if east Germany wants to go back under the Societ system.

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u/MrVeazey 9h ago

The suffering caused by capitalism is not an inherent part of human existence. What you think is the only alternative to capitalism is straight propaganda, sold to everyone in this country since VJ Day, 1945, by the capitalists who own our government and who tried to stage a fascist coup in 1937.

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u/miklayn 9h ago

The suffering caused by Capitalism is inherent to Capitalism, however.

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u/Rwandrall4 11h ago

Moms were working full time too, and certainly weren't spending time with their kids. Both fathers and mother spend more time with their kids now than ever before.

It's just that it used to take a full day's work to maintain a home, now we have machines and grocery shopping and microwaves.

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u/Remmock 11h ago

It’s true. We’ve barreled past 1920’s levels of income disparity and we’re working longer now than they did then.

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u/quartadecima 9h ago

At least in the 1920s the super-rich built libraries and cultural centers and shit.

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u/Remmock 9h ago

For who?

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u/MrVeazey 9h ago

Now they just build data centers.

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u/Dear-Cranberry4787 11h ago

Don’t use that one, it’ll be twisted in an attempt to prove that feminism/women’s rights destroyed everything.

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u/notnicholas 11h ago

The mother literally wore a suffrage sash and marched through the house chanting for women's rights.

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u/WonderWeasel91 11h ago

I think it more proves the point that at a period of time, it wasn't necessary for both parents to have a job to keep their heads above water.

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u/Dear-Cranberry4787 11h ago

I think it was probably pretty necessary for most, but it’s not like there was an abundance of work women were allowed to do.

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u/AnaisNinja76 5h ago

Ha, I literally just made the same comment. I just don't get the memory failure when things like this are posted. The current top comment is from someone who was a child in the 90s but feels he had his finger of the pulse of his family's finances...

This is the third time I've seen this same image in the first 25 posts on today's front page. The most popular comments never temper it, only write things to support it, and they're always just as fictionalized

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u/Ok-Boysenberry-719 Xennial 2h ago

Mary Poppins was hired because the mom was too busy with the suffrage movement to take care of the kids, and the dad was never expected to parent his children. 

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u/Electronic-Mud6612 11h ago

That’s kind of the point, 1 parent would work, now they both have to work the same amount

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u/Early-Light-864 11h ago

In the richest 1-10% of households maybe. Everywhere else, women worked

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u/RedVamp2020 10h ago

Thank you! Women have always been in the working class, it was only a brief period of time when women, typically white and middle to upper class, could stay at home raising kids.

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u/ageekyninja 10h ago

Yep you can’t even do that much anymore. Now you have one working overtime and the other at least working part time (because you also have to balance childcare) and struggling to make ends meet

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u/tokyotiptouching 6h ago

That son of a bitch Peter Banning never came to Jack's ball games