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well first of vasilia, I'm no expert either but it doesn't take a phd in economics to figure that doubling the workforce almost overnight is going to cause problems. You are correct that the US doesn't produce anything of tangible value, and I think it's no coincidence that this decline occurred soon after women started working. Around that time we cleverly shifted into our fake "service economy" to hide that fact that we don't produce anything. Now feminism or not this would have been a problem eventually, but what "women's lib" did was speed up and simultaneously mask the problem to make it easier for us to not deal with it.

As to the war, I agree it's wasteful but almost irrelevant to the economy. We don't have the money we are spending over there anyway, so what does the debt matter? Whose going to make us pay it back? (maybe China but.. hold that thought). Incidentally, it's our military might that allows places like Europe and Canada such cushy, quasi-socialist places to live, maternity leave and all. If not for the US military, you'd all be speaking arabic and finding out what real female oppression is like.

re: credit mortgage stuff, that largely occurred after the fact, a result of inflation not a cause. In addition to stuff already mentioned unregulated printing of currency and oil depletion (another reason for the war) have been more direct causes, IMO. So no you cannot blame it all on feminism, but I think it did a lot more to hurt us than help.

and China well, that's a completely new phenomenon, and nobody knows how that one will play out, though I think if peak oil is real, it could cripple them big time in a hurry.

ah isn't it fun how this has turned into "world affairs"...

but to corral this back on topic (sort of) you are dreaming if you think this culture is anything other than toxic for raising kids outside of very special circumstances. Nothing will change that which isn't a band aid. Which is probably what helped create the environment you did ok in. But you can't apply a band aid forever, without tending to the wound.