You miss out the impact of DEI on employment opportunities for young men, young white men - like my son. He has a Counselling Psychology Degree and is struggling to find work in a field dominated by women.
"Some talk about the “declining marginal utility of men" To be as reductionist as I often am.
Until v recently in species terms children required two parents to be even able to survive. This is no longer true. Therefore it is much more true that as with fish and bicycles women - even those who wish to be mothers - no longer need a man.
Might like a man around, will rub along with one, love one even, sure. But not economically need to ensure the physical survival of the children - the welfare state has taken over that role.
OK, we can say this is great, women and children no longer need to be tied to suboptimal men. We can also say this is a problem - what do all the suboptimal men then do?
Another description of the something. When it required 2x to raise children there was an x for everyone (well, nearly). Now it isn't so there are spares....
I am personally acquainted with a fit, strong, intelligent young man who wanted to join the London Fire Brigade. He passed every test but was then told explicitly, "We can't recruit you, you do not help us fill our diversity quota". He was, of course, a white Briton born of white middle class professional parents. He has kind of withdrawn now. I am not making this up, and it brought home to me how disastrous current policies are. Catastrophically disastrous.
There are perils of linking two similar articles together, nonetheless considering Iain's thesis that regardless of cost increases to SCP, 25% of children firmly remain in the poverty definition, I was st uck by two aspects of this article.
Firstly that comment about the UK getting better at data; I recall your request for analysis into finding proof for anecdotal policy sound bites last month in particular. How we measure and manage data has become central to the world of work in the last quarter century too.
Secondly, and slightly related, we clearly have to redefine what working class actually means. In almost 50 years of class stratification being carefully defined to target potential voters, the statistics above must surely start to carry a degree of horror from our predecessors.
You miss out the impact of DEI on employment opportunities for young men, young white men - like my son. He has a Counselling Psychology Degree and is struggling to find work in a field dominated by women.
"Some talk about the “declining marginal utility of men" To be as reductionist as I often am.
Until v recently in species terms children required two parents to be even able to survive. This is no longer true. Therefore it is much more true that as with fish and bicycles women - even those who wish to be mothers - no longer need a man.
Might like a man around, will rub along with one, love one even, sure. But not economically need to ensure the physical survival of the children - the welfare state has taken over that role.
OK, we can say this is great, women and children no longer need to be tied to suboptimal men. We can also say this is a problem - what do all the suboptimal men then do?
Another description of the something. When it required 2x to raise children there was an x for everyone (well, nearly). Now it isn't so there are spares....
I am personally acquainted with a fit, strong, intelligent young man who wanted to join the London Fire Brigade. He passed every test but was then told explicitly, "We can't recruit you, you do not help us fill our diversity quota". He was, of course, a white Briton born of white middle class professional parents. He has kind of withdrawn now. I am not making this up, and it brought home to me how disastrous current policies are. Catastrophically disastrous.
Maybe it's time to start addressing the cause not the symptoms.
There are perils of linking two similar articles together, nonetheless considering Iain's thesis that regardless of cost increases to SCP, 25% of children firmly remain in the poverty definition, I was st uck by two aspects of this article.
Firstly that comment about the UK getting better at data; I recall your request for analysis into finding proof for anecdotal policy sound bites last month in particular. How we measure and manage data has become central to the world of work in the last quarter century too.
Secondly, and slightly related, we clearly have to redefine what working class actually means. In almost 50 years of class stratification being carefully defined to target potential voters, the statistics above must surely start to carry a degree of horror from our predecessors.
https://open.substack.com/pub/iainmacwhirter/p/scottish-voters-are-experiencing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ellen