Matt Forney@mattforney
BTW, this is also the reason why "repeal the 19th" and RETVRN TO TRADITION will fail, and why attempts to raise the birthrate also fail.
Second-wave feminism was a byproduct of technological advancement making life so easy that women had nothing to do. Being able to sit around and whine about the "unfulfilling" life of a housewife was a luxury created by the fact that women no longer needed to do 10+ hours of labor a day washing clothes and rearing kids.
Similarly, birthrates are crashing globally because children are a hindrance in the modern world, not an asset. Modern medicine means that your wife is not going to die in childbirth and half your kids won't die before they turn 5. Children are not necessary to haul haybales around the farm or scrub chimneys for a bit of extra money. Even in places that were never touched (or only barely touched) by Western feminism, birthrates are cratering as turd worlders gain access to modern technology and begin amusing themselves to death. Most of Latin America and Asia and about half of Africa are now below replacement rate.
Natalist initiatives to raise the birthrate have all been miserable failures. In Hungary, all of Orban's childrearing incentives failed to raise the birthrate back to replacement levels, and fertility among Hungarian women is falling again. At best, these maneuvers encourage women who already have kids to have more, but they don't encourage women who don't want kids to have them in the first place. There is simply no getting around the fact that children are a burden in the modern world, an unnecessary expense, and people are simply choosing not to have them for these reasons.
The AI revolution will likely take out the pillars of second-wave feminism by making the email jobs that women primarily occupy redundant. But this isn't going to lead to a renaissance of women choosing to be good little housewifeys. They're going to become prostitutes, either literally or via "soft prostitution" channels like Seeking Arrangement or OnlyFans.
We can't go home again. The only way out is through.
