A Lesson In Economics...

[JakeStratham]

...courtesy of Anne-Marie Slaughter of The Atlantic. (Source)

She begins with the following assertion:

Providers of physical and spiritual care are just as indispensable to our society as providers of income.

Slaughter follows that with a number of equally laughable assertions, feelings, and prescriptions. Exhibits A, B, and C (respectively) follow:

Throughout its history, America has continued to reinvent itself, each time producing a better society for more of us than the one that preceded it.

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I’m all for competition—in its place. But we have lost sight of the care paradigm, which is the necessary complement to competition.

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As we strive for equality, we must also redefine and reprioritize the pursuit of happiness, the most personal of America’s founding values. Happiness can certainly be achieved through individual achievement, through winning the competition. But it is equally reached through a web of strong and fulfilling relationships—the warp and woof of connectedness and care.

More? You got it...

This means that not being cared for is just as much a marker of inequality as being discriminated against.

Both conditions are ways that those with power can enforce inequality against those without power—the young, the old, the sick, the disabled, the different, the structurally disadvantaged. “You don’t care” can mean “You don’t see me or hear me; you don’t give me equal regard.” But it can also mean “You don’t give me what I need to survive and thrive on an equal basis with my fellow citizens.”

I imagine a new America in which citizens recognize that providers of physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual care are as indispensable to our society and our economy as providers of income.

There you have it. A fine lesson in economics.

Class dismissed.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

This is what happens when someone realizes their college degree is useless so they try to justify their existence to others.

 

[blureach]

The crux of the issue with this author and every author like her, is they don't understand the concept of "caring".

When they say "America that cares", they view an altruistic society focused on the well-being of everyone. Utopia is impossible and unreasonable. Our instincts of self-preservation supersede societal preservation.

/opinion

 

[craigmc]

Sounds like a Democrat to me...

 

[rusvik]

I actually agree with her that everyday human contact, care and empathy is underrated by bureaucrats.

The problem with Mrs. Slaughter is that women and men of her ilk always end up appealing for the government to provide it and the government can't or won't provide any kind of care. They want the government to pay for what should be basic human decency.

Overwhelming real word evidence shows that when we try to outsource our generorisity and compassion to the state, the exact opposite happens. The old are treated like dirt, sick are treated like numbers in a renumeration program, children as future taxpayers. There is no compassion or even basic human decency in socialist 'care'. The system only cares about itself. I've seen this myself, old people being unceremoniusly left to die in an overcrowded hospital ward, not in a room even, but in the hallways. Too old to work and pay tax, too old to be of value to the state. Old people being heavily sedated and put in adult diapers because the staff doesn't give a damn.

I have no, zero, sympathy anymore for socialist do-gooders, I've seen the result of their superior 'care'. They're as close to evil as you can get without believing in satan.

 

[jstover77]

 

[infoslob]

This is what happens when someone realizes their college degree is useless so they try to justify their existence to others.

I know this is an abortion of a thread but Jake's not that bad.

 

[medicalhumor]

I imagine a new America in which citizens recognize that providers of physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual care are as indispensable to our society and our economy as providers of income.

I'm all for this. I'd much rather pay my employees in spiritual care.

 

[JakeStratham]

I have no, zero, sympathy anymore for socialist do-gooders, I've seen the result of their superior 'care'.

I don't mind socialist do-gooders.

I just want them to do it with their own money.

 

[rusvik]

I don't mind socialist do-gooders.

I just want them to do it with their own money.

Forget money, I just want them to do with their own effort.

 

[boatBurner]

Forget money, I just want them to do with their own effort.

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I only learn meaningful things when they're drawn in crayola.

 

[scottspfd82]

Thanks Jake,

My faith in humanity has been acting up again today. I needed a reality check

I read a couple of her other articles just trying to empathise with her points of view. Her article about "How Men Can Help Women Succeed In The Military" was all I could stomach.

Are we willing to see a man who is at home with his children, full-time or part-time, while his wife is off on the front-lines as a gunner or a pilot, as fully a man? We had better be able to answer that question yes, or we are not going to see genuine female equality in the military or anywhere else.

1. I'm a "reformed" veteran. The best thing the military did for me was showing me the true nature of the state.

2. Any man who is willing to encourage the mother of his children to go commit murder for criminal wars - and willing to make orphans of her children for the benefit of war profiteers shouldn't be allowed within 100 miles of a vagina.

Man some people disgust me.

Time to shake that off and get back to loving life.

 

[JakeStratham]

Thanks Jake,

My faith in humanity has been acting up again today. I needed a reality check

I read a couple of her other articles just trying to empathise with her points of view. Her article about "How Men Can Help Women Succeed In The Military" was all I could stomach.



1. I'm a "reformed" veteran. The best thing the military did for me was showing me the true nature of the state.

2. Any man who is willing to encourage the mother of his children to go commit murder for criminal wars - and willing to make orphans of her children for the benefit of war profiteers shouldn't be allowed within 100 miles of a vagina.

Man some people disgust me.

Scott, a part of me is glad that you don't post often. If you did, I'd never get any work done.

Time to shake that off and get back to loving life.

Amen.

 

[BigWill]

Forget money, I just want them to do with their own effort.

Exactly, it all boils down to greed. They could have volunteers doing it all without an issue, people who actually care. They want everything for free and to get paid at the same time.

 

[potentialeight]

Call me Sponge Bob.
Stackin Crabby Patties.
Bitch I go to work.
Do my cat daddy.

 

[Pleb]

As a Canadian, I just want to say that I miss the days when our American friends could be relied upon to be the greediest collection of people on the planet. The rest of the world needs someone to be jealous of. I mean, it's been an interesting ~5 years watching you guys turn into a bunch of diaper-wearing pussies, but enough is enough. Kindly get your shit together and start banking again.