Thread by @Aristos_Revenge

This is really bad

I've studied the negligible impacts of govt incentive structuring in Hungary and Japan, which has *some* impact, but not much

I'm convinced the only way to fix this is to get women to stop going to college, or to give men extreme preference in the most lucrative jobs at *scale*.

Sweeping away bullshit govt and NGO jobs by downsizing or taking govt grant money away is going to cause a lot of extreme selection pressure on women who work and have a degree.

There's gonna be more competition for those jobs but hopefully a lot of women decide to just dip out.

Similar to COVID when daycares closed and a lot of women just said fuck it and became stay at home moms, or women who lost in-person jobs or became WFH types ended up having kids.

This problem doesn't really get fixed until a single income family household is more viable, or Americans start adopting multi-generational living at broader rates. The problem with the former is it isn't widely economically viable, the problem with the latter is atomization.

So the grandparents aren't around to take care of their grandkids while the parents work because they either would rather go on a cruise, or the parents had to move to a big city where the work is and are far away.

And economically this is difficult (not impossible, my wife stays at home and I have two small kids) but it's a great sacrifice in material security and status. We don't go on muh vacations to disneyland or ski trips etc like a lot of dual income middle class families can.

And it's only gotten *harder* for young family formation in this manner. I bought my house for like 190k about 10 years ago. It's now worth somewhere in the neighborhood of 350k. Having your assets inflate is good if you have assets, it's punitive if you don't.

So economically, how can we fix this? Well we can re-shore and near-shore, which is already happening to a large degree. We can lower taxes and engage in tariff policy to get more of our tax revenue from outside actors like corporations and nations (which Trump is doing)

We need to be highly competitive to the point where the trip across the ocean and the tariffs makes asian sweatshop labor almost or about equal to Americans domestically doing the work for a *living wage*.

But beyond that, we also need to slash a lot of these bullshit unproductive jobs that college educated women have. The NGO's, the bureaucratic administration in the Govt and at Universities. The useless college majors. These all provide middle class makework jobs for women.

Cutting off those avenues doesn't mean that money disappears, most of it will find somewhere else in our economy to be spent. Money wants to make more money, it hates just sitting somewhere idle.

So we need investment in the domestic economy to take priority over activism.

I think we can stem a lot of the bleeding if we keep playing our cards right and things turn out ok 5-6 years down the road with tariffs, cutting govt grant spigot, and making private capital turn away from social activism as a means of profit and back to market fundamentals.

But at the end of the day the problem becomes "Women would rather be independent than be with a man who doesn't have complete economic leverage over them"

We've also brainwashed women for decades to seek status in the way that *men* seek status, and then give them a handicap.

And this is part of the answer when someone will inevitably go "Aristo, why don't those faggot incels just go to college and get a degree like the women do?"

Because most college campuses are incredibly hostile towards men. Who wants to deal with that?

In addition to that, not everybody *should* go to college. Taking some gen ed classes and getting a bullshit major just to clear the hurdle after taking on a bunch of student loan debt really isn't a good process unless you're the university or a lender.

When I was growing up not *everyone* went to college or even most people, but I was of the generation where parents were adamant that you *had to* or you were going to be a janitor or work in fast food for life.

So a lot of people who shouldn't have gone, went.

And the entire academic endowment NGO complex is giving them jobs to try and pretend that getting those paypigs through the student loan chattel house(especially women) was "worth it" so word doesn't get out.

A lot of this situation is also downstream of Griggs v. Duke Power Co. which established the bedrock of "disparate impact". Companies used to require more individualized hurdles like IQ or skill tests to qualify for more advanced jobs. Educational reqs became the new proxy.

So there's a unified battle plan that *can* be enacted to fight off TFR issues, but we need to stop acting like giving women money or cutting taxes for families is going to make women *have* kids.

Men need to predominantly make more money than women. It's the only fix.

An addendum, some governments have tried to literally just pay women to have kids, and you can't get most women to accept 60k in free money just to have two children. Women either are kid havers or non kid havers and the government doesn't seem to be able to influence that.

Also, AI is going to heavily hit career fields that are predominantly college educated women. Copywriting, graphic arts, customer service, those industries are gonna get absolutely *rocked* in the near future.

But there is hope

https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1898011013502341316