Tradwife content is on the rise for women as well, more and more young people are buying into this mythical simpler past as the world gets more complex, alienating and difficult.

The tension between a capitalist wanting lower wages and more consumption is a contradiction at the heart of capitalism. It's one of the reasons Marx thought it was bound to destroy itself. One resolution to this contradiction is debt, get people buying everything on credit cards and you won't have to raise wages to keep consumption up. This is why the economy has kept growing while wages have stagnated, credit card debt has boomed recently.

There are many contradictions in capitalism, another is that workers want higher wages, but also want cheaper products. If wages do increase then the price of products increase as well and we get inflation. These contradictions lead to the instability of capitalism and require the state to step in and mediate them otherwise the system oscillates wildly between booms, busts, inflation, deflation etc.

Sorry to hear about your situation. I understand how that sort of rhetoric can kick you while your down and stick with you a lot more. Blaming poverty on the impoverished is always disgusting.

I agree, some family situations are shit and any post-capitalist society would have to provide the resources to leave those situations.

The idea that people SHOULD leave there parents home at 18 is consumptively motivated, the idea that people CAN leave there parents home at 18 is liberating

Consumption is necessary for capitalism, the way you accumulate wealth is by selling goods and services for profit. Many recessions are caused by production overshooting consumption which leads to people being fired to lower production, which lowers consumption... Most of the evaluation of companies and thus the wealth of billionaires is based on consumption increasing. If it were to ever go down in a meaningful way then production would to, and thus the GDP and the billionaires slice of it.

There are other forms of accumulation besides the capitalist mode, eg. Fighting and conquering your neighbors in a feudal system, but I don't think musk and bezos want to bet there fortunes on there military acumen and they probably prefer this current system.

I think the whole avocado toast thing was way overblown. It was maybe one cnbc article and a cable news segment but the memes and media against it far outnumber the articles that supported it.

I've seen far more media supporting consumption of avocado toast, both social media and advertising, then media telling you to stop consuming avocado toast. We have just gotten so used to "tuning" out advertising that we don't notice it, meanwhile an article shaming you for consuming is far more likely to get a reaction and make you remember it.

Banning advertising would be a good start.

This requires a cultural change. Even if we fully redistribute the wealth, if everyone uses there new money to buy a huge pickup truck then we aren't helping to make a sustainable system.

Changing the culture is going to require some carrots and sticks.

The carrot is showing how you can enjoy life without consumption. People in the west have been indoctrinated by advertising and other cultural forces to think the path of happiness lies through consumption. Banning advertising and having media show paths to happiness that are less consumptive can help with this. Social media can play a part in this by showing people enjoying life withiut needing to buy anything, eg. Posting a pciture of your friends hanging out in the park. Celebrating a low consumption lifestyle can direct peoples drive for happiness away from consumption towards less destructive pursuits.

The stick, which most people don't want to do, is shame. Christianity was able to channel people's sexual drive into monogamous heterosexual married relationships for centuries using shame. If it's able to control such a fundamental desire as sex, it can stop people from buying useless junk. This will have to wait until the culture gains majority, because a minority shaming a majority just results in the minority being ostracized.

For anyone asking why it's strange, from the article

Traditionally, the dollar would strengthen as tariffs sink demand for foreign products.

If you're looking at the dollar with supply and demand, if international trade to the u.s. decreases with tarriffs, then the amount of dollars leaving the u.s. also decreases and thus the supply of dollars on the international market. Assuming demand remains constant then the strength of the dollar should go up.

For this decrease in strength you have to look to demand which has to decrease enough to counteract the tarriffs plus more. This decrease in demand is coming from both decrease in demand for assets priced in dollars (u.s. companies stocks, treasury bonds, real estate etc.) And retaliatory tarriffs which lower demand for u.s. goods.

Anytime anyone suggests we need to decrease consumption people complain that it's a plot by the rich to get us used to poverty.

we should eat less meat

The elites are trying to make the poor eat bugs

we need to drive less

The rich are taking away our freedom

we need to live in denser housing

The rich are trying to force you into a shoe box

You know what the rich really want?, consumption. They want you buying as much as possible because that's the way we get growth and it also makes it so you have less savings and are more dependent on your job, and less likely to make demands or quit.

I agree we need massive wealth redistribution and consumption by the 1% is magnitudes more harmful then the rest. But the current american lifestyle of heating and cooling an entire house for 1-2 people in a sprawled out suburb where you have to drive everywhere and have meat with every meal is not sustainable either. We need to reprioritize what we value as a society, deemphasizing individuality and private ownership and moving towards community.

Studies show hyper individualistic capitalist society is dissolving all social relations and making us lonelier and more alienated

Incels: well it's worse for men so we should focus on them

Femcels: well if it is worse then it's there fault for being misogynist

... culture war continues, nothing gets solved...

An example of this was the communist were heavily involved in organizing share croppers in the Jim crow south. This caused a lot of red baiting during the civil rights movement, with MLK often being labeled a communist ( he was definitely more left then he is often portrayed, radical by today's standards, but not a commie).

Robots don't get drunk, or distracted, or text, or speed...

Anecdotally, I think the Waymos are more courteous than human drivers. Though waymo seems to be the best ones out so far, idk about the other services.

A full day of ... nothing. The senate, and congress as a whole don't really do anything these days. They pass maybe one consequential bill every 2 years and then go back to sitting on there asses because the filibuster prevents them from doing anything besides "bipartisan" shit like sending weapons to Israel.

All the bad shit that's been happening is coming from trumps desk with no approval or input from congress.

triangle of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas

Hamas triangle? Do you mean the red triangle on the Palestinian flag, the one that predates hamas by half a century?

What hamas slogans were painted? The picture only shows "free gaza", "killers" and "complicity", nothing supporting hamas, unless anything calling for the end of the genocide is supporting hamas.

The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.

The financial times and the Irish times have since picked it up.

Yeah, checks notes.. Cooper Longbottom, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Shane O’Brien, and Roberta Murray are surely trying to turn Germany into a caliphate...

Yeah, but in both cases a majority of the population lives in the moderately dense line between the two major cities in the south east.

Why not show the responses? Obviously because there insane tankie responses promoting hamas and russia, not actual reasons Harris would be just as bad.

Also don't you guys hate hexbear because they show posts which invites people to go brigade those posts and users?

I don't think that should be the main worry. People are already having less children, below replacement in most of the developed world. Meanwhile the trend on meat consumption is going up, we should focus more on trying to stop that.

I'm pretty sure any iPhone and it's parts are worth way more than any android. If you had a fully modular android phone that is easy to take apart it still wouldn't be worth much because there's no market for it since maybe a dozen people have that phone.

The US are doing them now, who the Yemeni are even more alienated from and ready to view as an enemy than the Saudis.