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So the times I have feeled like I would never get a job again I remembered the expression: ”2/3 society”. I’m quite sure that was an internationally known idea, even if it was a while ago it was suggested. The thought was that in the future only two thirds of all people of working age would be needed. The other one third should be chronically unemployed, underemployed. One time I heard about the 2/3 society was the first time I was at the university. So long ago. Then in that university course they also mentioned the word "tittytainment". That the unproductive third should be server entertainment, the second part of the word, and nurturing, here symbolized by breast milk, the first part of the word. In other words, I could be wrong but it seems like "tittytainment" just was a new word for "bread and circus", and I am going to guess they were trying to get attention.
So 2/3 society was something I learned about in the last year of the last millenium. Now much later I read this article: Welcome to the new middle age. Beside underenployment the society today has: "Rising inequality, lower mobility, contempt for the poor and widespread celibacy — we're returning to the past."
The new middle age, could that be even worse than 2/3 society? Unemployment and economic inequality needs no explination. About celibatcy, it has been said that people have less sex now because of gender equality. That the sexual revolution of the 1960s really was about women being pressured to addaped to male sexuallity, but now, with increased equality we are trying to do the opposite. Getting men to addaped. So less sex. But explaining celibacy in that way might be taking it too far.
Anyway I am not that pessimistic about myself. I might be able to fix this. And society, well who knows?
So 2/3 society was something I learned about in the last year of the last millenium. Now much later I read this article: Welcome to the new middle age. Beside underenployment the society today has: "Rising inequality, lower mobility, contempt for the poor and widespread celibacy — we're returning to the past."
The new middle age, could that be even worse than 2/3 society? Unemployment and economic inequality needs no explination. About celibatcy, it has been said that people have less sex now because of gender equality. That the sexual revolution of the 1960s really was about women being pressured to addaped to male sexuallity, but now, with increased equality we are trying to do the opposite. Getting men to addaped. So less sex. But explaining celibacy in that way might be taking it too far.
Anyway I am not that pessimistic about myself. I might be able to fix this. And society, well who knows?
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As for celibacy, it’s a personal choice, not a social movement. People have less sex for a range of reasons. One of the most common is that they are doing other things with their evenings: taking classes or streaming movies or hanging out online, rather than spending time together with other people “in the flesh” as it were.
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And I think you're right, people are just spending more and more time online
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