The Economist explains “How Modern Families Increase
Social Inequality”
The title of the video seems to derive from the ABC “Modern
Family”.
It starts out with some examples of same-sex marriage
in the west, and then moves to South Korea to look at the social patterns
(almost as if inspired by “Parasite”).
In the end, economic equality for women, it says, has
been very bad for less educated men, who, in that country, have to import
foreign women for brides.
Modern families in the upper middle class are stable
and transmit their stability to their kids and pay formal lip service to liberal
values. But they tend to have very little emotional empathy for (or proxmitiy
with) the poor (only cognitive empathy). That’s one reason for the breakdown (disguised
as racism) for the “Black Lives Matter” protests.
Some of this has to do with population
demographics and lower birthrate among
richer families.
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