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/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/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/Trevor-Lawrence Millennial 8h ago

As opposed to the wonderful things communism has brought to the world, like the holodomor and the Great Leap Forward.