Tyler Cowen: belief

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…That’s part of how that went together. I think it’s true that if you had exactly 2020 parenting norms but with an additional child per family, that would have one set of impacts, I think shifting back to a slightly more relaxed standard might be healthier for everybody involved. I’m going to try to avoid getting myself canceled with too much speculation as to what’s inherent and what’s sociocultural in terms of the gender difference and interest in parenting. But I do think it’s true that a theme in the book is that we should be thinking about supporting the actual needs and preferences of women rather than the hypothetical egalitarian sketch, right? We see that women have more desire to have children, that most women, like most men, are working-class people. They have jobs because they need to pay the bills and things like that, and are not necessarily hyper-obsessed with the glass ceiling and who’s leaning into what. And people want to have nice, happy lives with a high standard of living where they could meet their aspirations, and that is 100 percent in line with some strands of thinking of what’s feminism and very much intention with some others. If I think of the well-governed countries in the world, it seems to me that most of them are pretty small. There’s Denmark, there’s Singapore, there’s New Zealand. You know the list, right? Mm-hmm.…

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