Everyday Utopia: Egalitarianism, Human Nature, & The Good Life
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The Human Nature Argument
There's this idea that the nuclear family is human nature, that monogamy is human nature. The poorer you are, the lower in the working class you are, more likely it is to have an extended family who can help with child rearing and other responsibilities. But for some people in like the upperly mobile upper echelons of the middle class, but not quite super wealthy, they're kind of in this purgatory where they don't necessarily have the resources to buy the extension of the family. And I think that we need to, there's a legal framework for this, but also a social framework as well.
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