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What @AbigailShrier says here about current-day censorship encapsulates what's terribly wrong with most of our free-speech-advocate pundits and journalists.
She's talking about Amazon, which sells her book, not accepting ads for it, and various places not reviewing it.
What @AbigailShrier says here about current-day censorship encapsulates what's terribly wrong with most of our free-speech-advocate pundits and journalists.
She's talking about Amazon, which sells her book, not accepting ads for it, and various places not reviewing it.
Contrary to what @AbigailShrier thinks, censorship in 21st-century America often IS the government sending police to people's homes.
It's just that people who are censored - the most harmed victims of censorship - aren't people Shrier or her peers pay much attention to.
It's just that people who are censored - the most harmed victims of censorship - aren't people Shrier or her peers pay much attention to.
Shrier's not paying attention to victims in marginalized groups - undocumented immigrants, prisoners, sex workers - who are censored, not by Amazon not carrying an ad, but by armed government agents.
1. Working longer hours ignores unpaid work. Who's taking care of the kids, and of the elders?
2. People who are paid more have more incentive to do more paid work.
3. Paying more taxes and receiving less welfare are both results of being paid more.
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2. People who are paid more have more incentive to do more paid work.
3. Paying more taxes and receiving less welfare are both results of being paid more.
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4. Men retiring later also reflects higher average pay. The more you earn, the higher the incentive to work a couple more years. (On average, women retire at 62, men at 64.)
5. Men die on the job MUCH more often. Let's talk about that.
5. Men die on the job MUCH more often. Let's talk about that.
Some of the feminist responses to this paradox - "if men are so privileged, why are the overwhelming majority of workplace deaths male?" - are unsatisfying to me.
Some blame the men, saying that if they weren't so macho, they wouldn't die so much.
Some blame the men, saying that if they weren't so macho, they wouldn't die so much.
