Dividing work in a family not about what people like, or about what's equal, it's about what works. You can't build a society on the basis of atomized individuals constantly negotiating out every interaction on an ad-hoc basis; that's just not a stable or realistic foundation. It leads to a culture of divorce and single-parents, generations of unsocialized children and ultimately societal collapse; we've seen the same pattern play out in the black community already.
And yet Northern European societies, which have very low gender inequality, haven't collapsed yet. So maybe the reason why the black community (ITYM the one in the US) has is probably a different one. (EDIT: Oh, look at this too.)
(Also, how comes people can ever get along with roommates of the same sex, where there's no Schelling point as to who should do which chores?)
And yet Northern European societies, which have very low gender inequality, haven't collapsed yet.
No, you're absolutely right they haven't collapsed yet. Even though their native populations have fallen under the replacement rate and are rapidly aging, they can still function more-or-less by importing huge numbers of cheap foreign immigrants and ignoring any shenanigans they get up to. Even though their cultures and social structures have largely been dismantled, their enormous tax rates and the free military security provided by the US means their welf...
People want to tell everything instead of telling the best 15 words. They want to learn everything instead of the best 15 words. In this thread, instead post the best 15-words from a book you've read recently (or anything else). It has to stand on its own. It's not a summary, the whole value needs to be contained in those words.
I'll start in the comments below.
(Voted by the Schelling study group as the best exercise of the meeting.)