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This is an unpopular opinion.
Congratulations! You achieved the goal of the community.
But now I feel the need to ask: are you not aware that what you propose is going back on civilizational achievements of nearly a century?
It doesn't go back on civilization achievements. It simply turns a blind eye to the main socioeconomic issues stopping women from having children. It also comically removes any and all responsibility on relationship building from men. It's an odd take for sure
The main reasoning revolves around mandating roles through "education". Education has always been a way to elevate individuals and, by extension, civilization. Education here is used as a locking mechanism, not a liberation one.
That is why I understand it as a civilization regress.
That's a fair take, I can agree with this perspective.
Considering that some people here advocate for abolishing capitalism in favor of communism, I think my take on education is pretty mild in comparison. I expected the negative response, no regrets.
Capitalism is as failed of an economic model as what is coloquially called "communism", associated with the brutal authoritarian regimes that rose in the late USSR, China, etc.
Basic reasoning is enough to find flaws in your opinion.
As living standards rise, fertility rates drop. This is a demonstrated reality throughout every nation. Birth rates remain high where gender roles are enforced - usually through religious belief - and poverty is generalized.
Unless you intend to enforce poverty, ignorance or both, what you propose is a civilizational regress, not advancement.
You're telling this to person who was born in the transformation period, whose parents were born in it, and whose grandparents lived through it all. You have no idea what you're talking about. This horrible communist system was voted away in my country in 1989 in first fair democratic elections since ww2 and since then I saw nothing but insane progress and wealth creation. Claim that capitalism failed, is asinine. Your argument is incomprehensibly invalid.
It is a system that allows for the flow of wealth to pool around a very reduced number of individuals, built on debt and exploitation.
It is a broken, failed and failling system and the proof is plenty and ubiquous, unless we are to deny the last twenty years, just to keep within recent times, where several unprecedented economic disasters took place that have led to lowering living standards and the rise of personal fortunes to never before registered levels, while nations go into mounting debt.
That is asinine.
But this was not about economics but education.
Where does your reasoning goes to force an outdated and regressive doctrine to individuals, particularly women? And why are men exempt of similar considerations, apparently?