>>82261257
>Many high birth rate countries live in extreme poverty
yes, I recognise this. in my first post I said that Islamic countries have been historically poorer, and so people are generally willing to put up with more economic hardship, at least when it comes to having kids.
There are two factors in determining the minimum wage. one is physical - the bare amount of food needed to survive, the minimum rent, etc. the other is mental - the lowest bearable standard people will accept before they start killing themselves or trying to overthrow the government.
>The real difference is entirely cultural
so yeah there is a cultural aspect, but that's not all of it
>You just don't want to own up to the fact that liberal feminism is the reason things are going wrong
I actually do disagree with liberal variants of feminism, but only because I don't think those forms are capable of achieving their stated goals
>>82261273
>Most people throughout history have been poor, yet they had kids
see above ^^^
>Having women in the workforce drives down the value of labor. It also takes away jobs from men
you're probably not gonna like what I have to say on this
what you say is true in isolation - it's a fact that when women joined the workforce, the number of hours men and women worked didn't halve, but stayed the same. at the same time, wages fell because businesses could get away with paying both men and women less, as they would rely on eachothers incomes.
you have a guy you work for, who gives you back in money only what you need to live, and takes whatever you make above that for himself.
your wife comes to work for the same guy, and working together you produce more than twice as much as before - but instead of getting twice as much back, the guy you both work for just takes more and expects the two of you to rely on eachother more to stay afloat.
in this scenario, is the answer that the woman should stop working, or that the guy you work for should be paying more?
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