• loathesome dongeater
    12•1 year ago

    Going to move away from my parents because I hate living with them. This is the ideal type of family.

      • loathesome dongeater
        10•1 year ago

        Yeah it has a lot of benefits for capitalist class. More homes are sold, more home loans are taken out, as people become atomised they become more dependent on cars, as families are broken functions are families are moved on to the plates of businesses (for example childcare). When I was younger I used to spend a lot of time with my friends and at my friends’ homes if my parents were busy which they often were. This kind of social cohesion within and between families becomes a bit rarer everyday.

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
          8•1 year ago

          Yes it’s capitalism. Note how capitalism literally created the nuclear family because it needed its workforce to be fully ready and available to every whim of the market. Capitalist media also present people not wanting to move from their town as losers, and i can’t even count the moments i was given some real disdain in words and body language during searching for work when i didn’t wanted to commute very far. Nothing really changed since Cato the Elder, we are fully expect to be slaves for the scrap of a wage. Continuing about the family, it progress still. Nuclear family is the smallest social cell, but it is still too big and too anchored for capitalism to realise their aims. Recently there is the trend of “you will own nothing and you will be happy” - micro houses, capsules, bunk beds, etc pushed in the media and it is glaringly obvious what the purpose is, it is to normalize living as disposable labour soldier, to create an army of labour, but “army” in the most literal sense, a cheap, ready for anything workforce with no expectations - basically slaves. And in such conditions, it is impossible to not only to have a new family but also to keep in touch with your already existing one.

      • SovereignState
        7•1 year ago

        I know that Asian and specifically Chinese youth continuing to live with their parents and grandparents – ostensibly represented as the filial piety part of a lot of Asian cultures – is always discussed in Western media with a sardonic sneer. Either straight up Orientalism or posited as an example of the failure of socialist-minded societies. “They don’t even have their own homes”, “none of them can afford to move out”, etc. How quickly the Christian-bourgeois state is to voice support for “family values”, only to then demand that children move away from their parents to be considered successful.

        • loathesome dongeater
          7•1 year ago

          China has an unusually high rate of home ownership among millenials: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-39512599

          Not sure what it is like among younger people.

          But yeah in some parts the nuclear family was founded in the tradition of encroaching on indigenous land. It is not something that is popular in the rest of the world.

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
          5•1 year ago

          West have this notion of adulthood and personal responsibility, which by itself it inevitable and good to a certain degree, but as many things in the west it has been risen to the level of incredible fanaticism and meaningless fetish.