{"id":24521,"date":"2023-09-08T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T03:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=24521"},"modified":"2023-09-08T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T03:39:54","slug":"why-the-most-powerful-forces-in-society-want-you-to-be-single-childless-and-selfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/why-the-most-powerful-forces-in-society-want-you-to-be-single-childless-and-selfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Most Powerful Forces In Society Want You To Be Single, Childless, And Selfish"},"content":{"rendered":"

By<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Matt Walsh<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In the midst of the #MeToo hysteria, when everyone was fixating on Aziz Ansari\u2019s bad date and Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s phantom gang rape trains, researchers at Morgan Stanley had a very different focus. They were concerned, as you might imagine, about the financial ramifications of the modern feminist movement. So they sent an analysis to their corporate clients looking into the economic impact of this new wave of feminism that was overtaking the country. Here was their top-line conclusion: \u201cBy 2030,\u201d Morgan Stanley wrote, \u201cmore than 45 percent of working women aged 25 to 44 in the United States will be single.\u201d If that prediction holds, it would be the\u00a0highest percentage<\/a>\u00a0of single working-age women in this country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

The economic impacts, Morgan Stanley predicted, would be significant. Morgan Stanley\u00a0quoted<\/a>\u00a0one researcher as saying:\u00a0\u201cWe find that single women outspend the average household, shifting spending profiles toward categories most poised to benefit from the demographic growth in single women with rising incomes.\u201d\u00a0Those categories include apparel, automotive, entertainment, and dining.<\/p>\n

Like most research that consultants charge millions of dollars to produce, none of that\u2019s terribly surprising. When women don\u2019t get married, they tend to climb the corporate ladder, where they earn money that they don\u2019t have to spend on kids. But there is one line of the Morgan Stanley report that stands out. It\u2019s the part where Morgan Stanley specifically urges its corporate clients to encourage women to pursue this unmarried lifestyle because it will make the corporations a lot of money. \u201cFor corporates and investors that embrace these trends, there are numerous benefits, from more nuanced corporate governance and performance to bottom-line growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Morgan Stanley report, and several others like it, put all the big brands on notice that they should take a proactive role in ensuring that more women become career-driven, instead of getting married and having kids. And predictably, over the past few years, we\u2019ve seen various initiatives along these lines. Facebook, Apple and other big tech companies began\u00a0offering<\/a>\u00a0to freeze the eggs of female employees. That\u2019s not for any medical reason; they\u2019re offering it purely so that women don\u2019t get pregnant and take maternity leave. Many companies have also started\u00a0paying<\/a>\u00a0for out-of-state abortions. That\u2019s all been widely reported.<\/p>\n

What hasn\u2019t been covered is the extent to which influencers and celebrities \u2014 most of them beholden to large corporations \u2014 are now openly campaigning, all at once, for women to remain single, or to become single again if they made the mistake of getting married. You can choose to believe this is all an accident, or maybe you think it\u2019s coordinated. Whatever the case, it\u2019s clearly happening. There have never been more famous people telling young women to stop making commitments to men. You may have seen this recent video from the actress and model Emily Ratajkowski, for example. She has around 2.6 million followers on TikTok, where she posts videos\u00a0telling<\/a>\u00a0random couples that their relationships won\u2019t last, and\u00a0encouraging<\/a>\u00a0women to dress like prostitutes on Halloween. In her\u00a0latest video<\/a>, Ratajkowski extols the benefits of getting divorced by the age of 30, so that women can party and have fun while they\u2019re still young and beautiful.<\/p>\n

Mia Khalifa was another one, as shocking as it was to hear bad relationship advice from a porn star. Here\u2019s how Mia spoke to her\u00a037 million followers<\/a> about the importance of getting divorced \u2014 multiple times, if possible.<\/p>\n

To give one more example, there was also the country star Kelsea Ballerini who talked about leaving her marriage because the \u201cglitter wore off\u201d and it would be a \u201cdisservice to herself\u201d to stay in the marriage.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s not enough \u201cglitter,\u201d just bail, go party. Whatever you do, don\u2019t think about putting in any kind of effort. Hollywood and the media have been pushing this message for a long time. They\u2019re doing it with maximum intensity. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve been talking about the insane levels of backlash I\u2019ve received for criticizing an influencer who promoted the \u201cchildfree\u201d lifestyle as a path to happiness. It was a relentless barrage of media coverage, all over one tweet I made on the subject. That\u2019s because they\u2019re very invested in promoting this lifestyle, which means that anyone who criticizes it must be furiously dogpiled and shut down.<\/p>\n

The point is that there\u2019s a large-scale effort underway to convince young people \u2014 especially young women, but not just young women \u2014 to be as shallow and selfish as possible, even if it means abandoning their marriages and wrecking their families. Lots of wealthy people and powerful forces are invested in pushing this message.<\/p>\n

In fact, the government is pursuing it as well. The National Bureau of Economic Research\u00a0crunched<\/a>\u00a0the numbers on this last year. They looked at federal and state taxes, along with benefit programs. And found that, in effect, there\u2019s a massive \u201cmarriage tax\u201d in this country. People who decide to get married, especially low-income people, end up sacrificing roughly two years of income to the government simply because they got married. The researchers found that, \u201cAbsent the tax, 13.7 percent more low-income, single females with children would marry annually and 7.5 percent more would be married by age 35.\u201d The researchers also found that the Affordable Care Act \u2014 Obamacare \u2014 imposes a \u201csubstantial marriage tax,\u201d because people who get married stand to lose a lot of subsidies under that law.<\/p>\n

You never hear anyone talk about that, but it\u2019s true. The government is punishing people who want to get married, especially low-income people. That\u2019s a legacy of Barack Obama that\u2019s never mentioned. And of course the current administration is continuing what Obama started. Last year, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, testified that abortion is good for the economy, because it means more women are working for large corporations, instead of getting married and raising kids.<\/p>\n

What are the consequences for regular Americans? For women, it\u2019s not great. And it used to be that you could say this publicly. It used to be conventional wisdom that it\u2019s bad to encourage most women to be single. This is a Harvard Business Review\u00a0analysis<\/a>\u00a0from 2002:\u00a0\u201cAt midlife, between a third and a half of all successful career women in the United States do not have children. In fact, 33% of such women \u2026 in the 41-to-55 age bracket are childless\u2014and that figure rises to 42% in corporate America. These women have not chosen to remain childless. The vast majority, in fact, yearn for children. Indeed, some have gone to extraordinary lengths to bring a baby into their lives. They subject themselves to complex medical procedures, shell out tens of thousands of dollars, and derail their careers\u2014mostly to no avail, because these efforts come too late. In the words of one senior manager, the typical high-achieving woman childless at midlife has not made a choice but a \u2018creeping non-choice.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Two decades later, that \u201ccreeping non-choice\u201d has been rebranded as a positive. You could never get any article remotely like that one published in the Harvard Business Review today. As disastrous as this transformation has been for women\u2019s happiness and fulfillment, it\u2019s probably even worse for men. As we\u2019ve\u00a0discussed<\/a>\u00a0on this show, men are now using more drugs, and killing themselves, more than they ever have in recorded history \u2014 and at rates that far exceed women. We shouldn\u2019t be surprised by that. When all of society reorients to promote girl bosses and to demean the institution of marriage, yes, women make more money in the short-term. Men also have fewer opportunities to start families, and have fewer opportunities to make a living.<\/p>\n

Read more at: dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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