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[–]Mardoo29 points30 points31 points (6 children) | Copy Link
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Also, betas pay the price for a kid and a ex-wife.
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I have this hypothesis that governments promote the family unit (or more recently, just the act of making children) because the former creates more taxpayers and the latter creates more opportunities to create tax funded job opportunities (family court, men in prisons...)
In the private sector single people and childless people are treated as disposable labor while people with children get preferential treatment. But I haven't figure out what corporations get by treating their workforce in this manner.
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Nah... if that were the case, then governments wouldn't support/subsidize abortion.
A far simple explanation is that the majority of the population (especially the VOCAL population) is either married and/or has children -- add in that their demands can always SEEM to be "selfless" (i.e. "Won't somebody think of the children?"} -- therefore an array of policies that pander to them are an "easy sell".
By contrast, single (especially single & childless) people tend to exist on the margins of society -- they also tend to be less vocal, in no small part because if/when they DO speak up, they are all too easily tagged as being "selfish", and just about the only way for them to avoid that label is to advocate for others (i.e. meaning the single people stand up and say "Won't somebody think about the women & children?")
Add in as well that single people do not come into existence ex nihilo -- by definition they came from, or at least were birthed into existence as part of a "family" (even if it's just a "single mom") -- IOW, during childhood is not the first ~20+ years of their life (fully 1/4 if not 1/3 of their lifespan) they are unwittingly part of the "family" political target group (i.e. and therefore not a part of the "single-adult" group).
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