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#614 - Nicholas Eberstadt - Why Do Millions of Men Not Want to Work?

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The Technocratic Approach to Social Policy

I am very interested in the idea of providers becoming dependents and us not having the language or the archetype framing to be able to give them something that makes them feel proud. And then also the distinction between poverty and misery, being told that you are from a benefiting from the past oppressive patriarchal superstructure. It just seems to me like the absolute sort of synthesis of everything that performative empathy allows to happen,. which is to do what looks good in place of what is good when it comes to trying to enact social policy.

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