Capitalism Hits Home: Is the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life?

[s07 e1] Is the Nuclear Family An Eternal Ubiquitous Way of Organizing Personal Life?
The nuclear family form we recognize as the "traditional family" began with the rise of capitalism in the late 1700s.
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[@jillfryer6699]

She's back again. Always glad to see her.

[@mizztotal]

Love the coffee cup! But on a sad note, it almost broke me when she said 22% of Black American children went hungry in 2021 😥

[@kevinhagen7808]

Thank you for this talk. How can we cope with ever declining real wages that can't support families? Working two, three jobs until our health declines, getting further and further into debt until emotional breakdown, suicidal ideation and violence results it is no wonder that our society is broken. There is virtually no real support for the many tens of millions of Americans who work paycheck to paycheck and can barely afford to live, let alone live well. I'm thankful to have a union represented job, but even so, life is so stressful, prices have kept increasing until it's more and more difficult to keep up. I have lost hope.

[@thecatsbackyard4833]

This makes me think of,"Hold Onto Your Kids" by Dr. Gordon Neufeld and Dr. Gabor Mate. Peer orientation has been with us for generations now.

[@EulerNumber_e_2.7183]

Blessed we are to have her in this age!

[@earthsystem]

The very sound of her gentle voice relaxes and comforts me. It makes me feel adults are in charge.

[@EulerNumber_e_2.7183]

@@earthsystem Yes it does!

[@TennesseeJed]

Always excited to see these!

[@piku5637]

We desperately need (guaranteed liveable) universal basic income, strong unions everywhere and co-ops.

[@csm.andrew]

Comrade, I would recommend Paul Cockschott’s video on why basic income is a bad idea. It explains why better than I could in this comment. I agree about unions and co-ops however.

[@csm.andrew]

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[@cryptbeast3222]

I honestly think cooperative towns would be best at this point. In the future, I can only see corporations gaining more power and basically using their wealth to recreate company towns, a number of huge companies have always done this or recently done this. We need some level of autonomy or otherwise unions, striking, cooperatives and everything else that gives workers some semblance of power will be made illegal.

[@bluewater454]

What you desperately need is a real education and the will to succeed, instead of waiting for the government to take care of you like a screaming baby bird waiting for its mother. Just saying.

[@montycobra]

Lol! Who's gonna make it so? Like, "we need some socialists to get into power and legislate good things!" Aha. Pray for it -- that'll help...

[@MrApplewine]

13:50 What about before the age of 3? The parents need support so they can be with the child up to the age of three. Also, why not have day care at the school after school and then take the kids home when the parents get home? If you have local neighborhood schools that won't even be a big problem with rush-hour.

[@shellb1633]

I learn so much from you, Dr. Fraad, ❤ Thank you

[@sizzla123]

Brilliant

[@shaneyaw4542]

Great talk Dr. Fraad.

[@sunnersky5996]

Thanks 🙏

[@bernardheathaway9146]

Thank you Dr!!

[@J.Shabazz]

"Moynihan's scissors" is a term used to describe the divergence of black male unemployment and welfare enrollment rates that began in 1962. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American politician and diplomat, noticed this trend while analyzing statistics related to black poverty. Moynihan called this the "scissors effect". Moynihan was concerned that slavery, urbanization, and high rates of black male unemployment had transformed the black family. He wrote, "The steady expansion of this welfare program can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States". Moynihan served as an assistant secretary in the Department of Labor. He represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 after serving as an adviser to President Richard Nixon

[@bluewater454]

Moynihan blamed the breakdown of the black family on the welfare state.

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@bluewater454 Racism is to blame, not welfare. Unless you blame welfare for the wealthy.

[@bluewater454]

@@kevinschmidt2210 If that is true, why were black Americans more likely than whites to be married and have intact families in the early 20th century when racism was at its highest? Jim Crow laws were still in effect, the KKK was still active, ect., and yet blacks were still at certain points more likely to be married and had lower out of wedlock births than whites, according to studies done by the US Census Bureau(see Historical Marriage Trends from 1890-2010: A Focus on Race Differences, SEHSD Working Paper Number 2012-12) Your racism theory is certainly a theory held by the left. It is simply not a theory supported by any historical evidence.

[@RextheRebel]

@@kevinschmidt2210 ah yes racism. Despite the fact that when blaqs were literally segregated, they had higher marriage rates and lower divorce rates. They were better off before the sixties and welfare programs.

[@bharatichaudhari]

Well said, nice

[@lisayoder5686]

We always try to say that corporate greed is the major player in all that ails us…yet we are told that it is inconsequential what they do, that we are ‘just jealous’ because we are not ‘smart enough’ to figure out the game like they are. I think it’s not jealousy at all. Terrible people ALWAYS think no likes them because ‘they are just jealous’. Can’t at all be because they are harmful, therefore UNlikeable predators of its own kind and nature abhors that. Um. Yes it is. I’m not jealous of ANY of them, and my friends and family that have more than I do? I’m not jealous of them either. I’m just PISSED because that sickness has spread into every aspect of our lives! It didn’t used to. I came into my own in the 90’s. I worked (or not sometimes) at jobs Id get when I needed extra money to pay bills…affordable bills, not extortion level bills that they are now. Now, beginning my entrance into my ‘golden years’, I am forced to work 40 hours (HA! I WISH it was only 40 hours, that’d be like a vacation in my salary - ie-unpaid overtime - job) for the rest of my life and there is no end on the horizon. Since my (more than I ever dreamed I would make) income now barely covers basic bills, I will, more likely than not, die at my desk, probably with my survivors being jacked out of my final paycheck-IF I’m lucky enough to not be pushed out of my job before that, either because they downsize me out or close down completely, or for my old age decline (I need my faculties, mental AND physical, to do my job) there is no light at the end of the tunnel, and being gen x, also not even having the hope of the paltry social security to help out (since we all know even now, that it does NOT cover even the most cheap, basic life). That’s what I’m ‘jealous’ of, but that’s not the definition of that word…the words that fit what I feel toward them is anger and disgust. Pride, gluttony and greed are not qualities to be admired, they are 3 of the deadlies for a reason…because they are HORRIBLE attributes in the human condition, and we must stop rewarding the worst of us while denying all the best.

[@umeshbhattarai2992]

Excellent Speech -Salute ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@patrickreese1868]

Another day another banger

[@oliversmith9200]

These are the explanations Americans have been starved for since the McCarthy Red Scare Purges.

[@marcobsomer5574]

Vu de France, très bel exposé mais malheureusement la France d'aujourd'hui prend la voie de l'Amérique. Nos libertés se réduisent pour suivre le capitalisme consumériste. Merci

[@EastBayFlipper]

This was a thought provoking talk and is manoeuvring closer to root cause for the reason why people die from hunger today 😢 ..in the richest country on earth 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ If your country's wealth depends on a fictional creation called money, then you're impoverished or have clinical avarice. There's no other choices possible, just like elections where it's always two candidates who you wouldn't want near your kids or purse🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ We're not supposed to be existing is desperation and misery, that's a carefully constructed reality we're all taught is the "right thing to do" because those with the gold, make the rule.🤑 A guaranteed Livable Basic income, unlimited free comprehensive healthcare whenever necessary and unlimited education to the person's potential, including doctorates. ..and all we have to do is stop having and permitting wars while making all political activities publicly funded, including campaigns and a mandatory minimum of 10 years in a general population prison for bribery of public officials and 10,000% fine based on the bribe given. It's time to give everyone the opportunity they deserve ❤

[@cev12]

"Lazy, lustful, oversexed men" sounds about right, if you've been dating in recent times... (And also the reason lots of women want to stay single when that's the choice, lol). I don't know how we can talk about the economic collapse of the US, while ignoring the huge surge in materialistic mindsets (including sex). I would even suspect they go hand in hand in several ways: 1) that those who are economically struggling need to focus more on the material, 2) that struggling economically makes wealth and excesses of wealth even more appealing, 3) the wealthy flaunt their wealth to the masses, and 4) those who became wealthy were probably already excessively materialistic... and the wealthy set the societal standards/status that everyone keeps striving towards.

[@bluewater454]

I can’t think of a more anti moral, materialistic mindset than secular progressivism.

[@kevinschmidt2210]

It takes two to tango. Can't have an oversexed man without an oversexed woman. The American Dream is a fraud. The wealthy class takers continue to steal the wealth, health and prosperity of the working class producers.

[@thomashunt1440]

American men under 30 are twice as likely to be single as 20 years ago (see wealth inequality). Who do you think it is that’s saying men are oversexed?

[@RextheRebel]

"lazy, lustful, oversexed" wmen is infinitely more accurate. Wmen want to stay single for one reason and one reason only. The sexual revolution. Wmen today believe they should be paid for existing, that they are oppressed despite living on recruit difficulty. They care about wealth and status. They refuse to date men that make less money than them but demand equality and the rejection of gender roles... Feminism is a cancer

[@kevinschmidt2210]

@@bluewater454 You can't think of your own mindset? LOL!

[@normalizedaudio2481]

Intersection and mutual shaping...what?

[@jimlaregina]

81% of American women are single? I did not realize the percentage of unmarried women was THAT high.

[@comradeweismann6947]

COMMENTS FOR THE ALGORITHM

[@davidpeppers551]

Meritocracy! This belief that we live in a meritocracy and that everyone automatically gets what they deserve and only what they deserve is another reason that the people here don't rise up. So many have been brainwashed that this is the case and we should gladly support such a system, that any misfortunes that befall these people, is considered a personal, moral failing on the part of the unfortunate. This is internalized. Who decides what merit is? Who gets to decide? Is that determination made democratically? Surely, we know the answers to these questions, if we'd only think to ask them.

[@matthewingerson]

The only people who claim that the U.S. is a meritocracy are the right-wing knaves from the wealthy-class and the right-wing dupes from the working-class. The wealthy-knaves know that the U.S. isn't really a meritocracy, but they pretend to believe that it is. And the working-dupes are too dumb to comprehend the truth. The U.S. is a right-wing sh!thole designed by, of, and for wealthy right-wingers. I agree with your sentiments.

[@bluewater454]

A meritocracy is not the belief that “everyone automatically gets what they deserve”.

[@davidpeppers551]

@@bluewater454 Rule by those with the most merit. Merit = worthiness. Merit = deserving of praise or reward. How would you define it then?

[@bluewater454]

@@davidpeppers551 Not necessarily “the “rule” of those who have merited it, but those who have merited responsibility via their academic and professional qualifications will generally be rewarded for it. Obviously this does not work perfectly in any system, but the general principle applies. In a meritocracy you will be rewarded according to how much effort you have put into your education and development of useful skills. The market rewards competence. People want to know that the person they hire to do a job have the skills and knowledge necessary to do a good job for them, and the higher the skill level the more money you can demand. Furthermore, if you develop a reputation for being competent and reliable people will continue using your services, which will benefit everyone involved. That is how a meritocracy works, in a nutshell.

[@davidpeppers551]

@bluewater454 Yep. Doesn't significantly vary from my idea of it. We have left out an important part. Who decides what merit is, how it will be determined, and how these decision makers end up in that position. Seems fine when terms are vague: skilled, achievement, competent, productive, creative, etc.....Who could argue with that? But what skills, what creativity, achievements, productivity are we talking about? It may not matter if we have these in spades if these are not the ones valued by the arbitrators of merit.

[@maryutz2643]

None of these movements you mention focus on economic issues. That's the problem.

[@AliHassan-hb1bn]

We better enjoy lies than be told ugly truth.

[@AhmedMohamed-gr3bg]

I'm disagree with you on much of what you say. You say that America should not spend billions of dollars on war and should care more about its internal affairs and its citizens But you do not know that without these policies, many Americans would not be able to live even at the same miserable level in which they live now America supports war in many places around the world in order to prove its influence and reap economic gains. If it retreats from these policies, its global influence will diminish and countries such as Russia and China will sweep it away, and America will suffer from a situation worse than it is in now. The same applies to France, which you take as an example that should be emulated. Its economy depends heavily on the resources it steals from African countries, and when the recent coups occurred in Africa, this presented a great danger to France. The imperialist ideas of countries like America and France are what keep them alive until now, and if they abandon them, they will be swept away by other countries with imperialist ideas as well. As for tyrannical religions, religions are not tyrannical, but humans are tyrants. Religions are one of the ways that have tried to elevate humans, encourage them to have good morals, and refine them spiritually, and this is a beautiful thing. But the problem with religions is that they do not explain to us how we can establish a state and build a system, society, and economy. Rather, all of their topics are the unseen. And spirituality and morals, and for this reason they have never been an appropriate tool to establish a state upon, and for this reason religion was separated from the state because religion has no clear concept or theory about the state. Rather, most of the ideas about the state from clerics and priests are their own human efforts and they have never followed a divine revelation in them. We do not We find, for example, in the Bible any texts about the state, the economy, or anything else But we find religion always calling for goodness, justice, and truth without showing us a specific, clearly defined mechanism that shows us how we can achieve this justice! This is why religious tyranny appears With regard to the family, the social situation of the American family is heading towards a pathetic state of disintegration and the lack of cohesion and old family warmth, from the day the departure from the old traditional system of the family and society began in a state of disintegration and collapse. Do you think that there is a future waiting for a society full of queers, drug addicts, homeless people, and broken families?! of course no

[@BriarLeaf00]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 towards a workers led socialism through solidarity!

[@AliHassan-hb1bn]

Why advertising MC'Donalds while you should address real status cuo.?

[@matthewingerson]

Imagine a venn diagram with three circles of right-wingers who want: (1)Unfettered "states' rights," (2)unfettered "parental-rights," and (3)unfettered "privacy-rights." The right-wingers who land in any of the circles should certainly be monitored, but the ones who land in the middle are the ones to be most wary of. They want the right to treat their children, and other vulnerable people, like slaves, and they want the right to keep it completely private.

[@NatalieThress]

I have very mixed feelings on the nuclear family, on one hand I can see how its inefficient, but on the other hand I would rather kill myself than have to live with my grandparents

[@earthsystem]

Here, in Northern California, plenty of Indian families live in giant palaces, with extended famly. Per grandparents and grandchildren are natural allies. And you can afford great play structure for the kids when kids are raised in a giant family setting. People in extended families get used to letting people live their own lives, it's nothing at all like what you are experiencing with your grandparents

[@bluewater454]

“Inefficient”? What a strangely vague description.

[@xaques.4469]

Hell yeah dude