Re: [Pen-l] Women entering workplace and dampening social revolution

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Lear wrote:
> This made me wonder if this event, that Boushey I think said was
> "one of the most important in the last 50 years", sort of helps put
> the lid on social revolution.

If so, it's far from being the only factor doing so.

> The order of response to unfairness in the U.S. seems to be just to
> work harder, then perhaps if that fails to maintain living standards,
> social revolution (ish) responses start to proliferate.

in a very individualistic country like the US, people look for
individual solutions first. And, it seems, a lot of the "radical"
stuff has a big component hot air, as when people yell about bonuses
for bankers and ignore the structural problems.
-- 
Jim Devine / "It has always been the prerogative of children and
half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the
half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."  --
Neil Gaiman
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