Package Deal

What if the ennui facing the American working class is not primarily because of the loss of manufacturing jobs, but because the traditional family has largely collapsed, with sky-high rates of out-of-wedlock births, divorce, blended families, more divorce, concentrated among…
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) April 7, 2025

Yes, the neoliberalization of the soul is just as bad as that of the market. It’s a package deal. It changes the workplace, the family, the self-perception.

That’s why people who are doing well economically and have been impacted very positively by offshoring manufacturing jobs are just as depressed and overmedicated as everybody else. That’s why every social class is living its own version of a moral collapse. That’s why the children of the rich are as lonely and lost as those of the poor.

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Clarissa

“…the ~~neoliberalization~~ feminism of the soul is just as bad as that of the market. It’s a package deal. It changes the workplace, the family, the self-perception.”

That is the real origin of the moral collapse. In the West, we consider all people are equally valuable, but that does not mean that we are fungible. We are individuals, each of us unique, but each of us male or female, ignoring that has been eroding Western civilization since at least the 60’s.

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