{"id":43288,"date":"2018-05-22T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43288"},"modified":"2018-05-03T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T13:23:56","slug":"qotd-capitalism-is-the-most-feminist-economic-system-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/22\/qotd-capitalism-is-the-most-feminist-economic-system-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Capitalism is the most feminist economic system ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We really do need to be pointing out that the Good Old Days are now. Both technological advance and productivity growth have been driven by that combination of capitalism and markets. Capitalism, in its lust for profits, leading to the invention. Markets and the ability to copy what works being what creates the general uplift in standards by the spreading and wide use of those inventions.<\/p>\n<p>The net effect of this has been, well, it\u2019s been to make women\u2019s lives vastly better. Starting with the point that many women actually have lives as a result. Childbirth has moved from being the leading cause of female death* to a mild risk which kills very few \u2013 each one a tragedy which is why we\u2019re so happy that we have reduced that risk. We\u2019ve automated all the heavy lifting in society meaning that women can indeed, with their generally lighter musculature, compete in near all areas of work. We\u2019ve done more automation of household drudgery than we have of anything else too, freeing the distaff side from that chain upon their ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve even freed all from the child bearing consequences of bonking \u2013 much to the great pleasure of man and woman alike.<\/p>\n<p>Women today are the most privileged, richest, group of women who have ever stumbled across the surface of this planet. And in comparison to the men in their society they\u2019re the most equal too. All of which leads to an interesting question. Just why are they whining so much?<\/p>\n<p><em>*Possibly an exaggeration but not much of one. Certainly not about the mid 19th century before Semmelweiss.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tim Worstall, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.continentaltelegraph.com\/culture\/capitalism-is-the-most-feminist-economic-system-ever\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Capitalism Is The Most Feminist Economic System Ever&#8221;, <em>Continental Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, 2018-04-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We really do need to be pointing out that the Good Old Days are now. Both technological advance and productivity growth have been driven by that combination of capitalism and markets. Capitalism, in its lust for profits, leading to the invention. 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