Social media right now is an ocean of would-be propaganda for traditional heterosexual marriage. There are “tradwives,” who cosplay submissive housewives on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. They overlap with “family vloggers,” typically conservative Christians with large families who chronicle their daily lives online. The world of Christian right content online is far more interested in the maintenance and promotion of the patriarchal nuclear family than, say, the life of Jesus Christ, who died as one of those “childless cat ladies” Vance hates so much. Billionaire Peter Thiel has even funded a woman’s magazine, meant to compete with Vogue or Cosmopolitan, that positions extremely conservative marriage as the only true path for women’s lives.
Read “Hells Angels” by Hunter Thompson.
There’s a passage where he runs down the economics of being a biker/hippie/artist circa 1972.
An Angel could work six months as a Union stevedore and earn enough to live on the road for two years. A part-time waitress could make enough to support herself and her musician boy friend.
yeah its like houseing. the dream was to not have a mortgage on the home it was about paying off the mortgage. Similarly 40 hours a week was not expected to just get you by but to thrive and folks willing to live very modestly and just get by could work part time. There was complaining about all the people on welfare but if a job was not going to give you a decent amount for your work then yeah folks would not take it. There was a much higher expectation.