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Originally Posted by Throndor
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You're moving the goalposts.
In your prior post, you placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of "Capitalism" you cannot transmute this statement to mean "all non communism isms". That is the definition of moving the goalposts. Please stay within the confines of your own assertions.
Now, if there is 100$, and we split it equitably at 50$ each.....you're compulsive and wasteful and you blow your money 30 seconds later, whilst I am disciplined and minimalist and only use my money for sustenance leaving me 45$ at the end of the day, how can we be "equal" tomorrow? Do we need to split it in half again since there's technically no "difference" between us and the equation must always be balanced?
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IDK what the hell you're talking about.
But My original post is objective fact. We are currently living in a capitalist system with a capitalist media that enviably sells a capitalist image of success to men and women alike.
In yet the alt right wants to blame feminists (a capitalist creation partially), marxists, probably mexicans and other boogie men for capitalism not working for them.
You yourself blame them for not being capitalist minded enough and pulling themselves up by their boot straps. The American people just need to live up to capitalism and it will be fine!
And by Capitalism -- to be clear -- I'm not talking about German capitalism or Northern European capitalism etc...I'm talking American "Liberal Market Economy" Capitalism.
I think it is more likely that American Capitalism sells this idea to women that they all deserve a upper middle class lifestyle. At the same time, that lifestyle is objectively getting harder and harder to obtain. Entry level jobs are particularly hard to get for new graduates. They pay more poorly these days and it takes longer to compete with a wider field for a few well paid jobs.
So this creates a sense of hopelessness in some young men. Probably the ones that aren't naturally attractive so need money and social success for any self confidence at all.