>>89456
Well, to be fair, for most of history consumption for women involved spending other people's money, and specifically the male figure.
Also, to push back just a little from the usual echo–chamber around these parts: active consumption, AND communism do make sense, in my opinion, at the family level. I for one basically do want a communist type society for my family, and I want that for libertarian type reasons–I think if everyone in my family is free to express and act as they can and should, then it will tend to better for all of us. And I like wife-anon to have her own opinions because I like arguing with her and talking with her, otherwise it gets boring. I also want my kids to do whatever THEY want to do, even if I think it's stupid and crazy and dumb, some lessons you just gotta learn on your own.
Wife anon and I have rules for our kids of course, but I also recognize those rules are pretty arbitrary and will explain as much to them when they get old enough to where it seems like that I can comprehend that type of belief system.
Wifeanon spends money, and she also makes money, and she also dealt with all the decorating, furniture buying, clothes shopping, etc. etc. that make it so that when I invite people over they don't see a total infestation of dirt and disease that would have probably been the case if I were left to my own schedule of cleaning and clothes shopping only when it becomes absolutely necessary to do so. I probably look a bit better in public because she comments on my clothes or buys new ones when things get in her opinion out of fashion or old or dirty. I think it's pretty awesome I just come home and they are already all just there literally folded and in my drawer. That costs money to do, but it also costs time, and I don't want to do it at all. I'm super glad to have her around, and I think an even division of labor and things mostly works out. She's got her domain, I've got mine, and we both contribute separate but equally to making our family work.
Now, at the state level, I'm with you, and adopt the line of pretty much everyone here. I don't want anyone else coming in telling us how it's going to be.
Here's how I think this relates to OPs post: state level, macro-type scale, we're getting huge swaths of people males and females who are getting married later and later in life, with fewer kids, and more purchasing power. women dominate social media and dominate consumption. But think about what that means for a moment anon. This also means that women dominate the formation of social relationships. If you want access to social capital, you have to go through women–and they guard their mysteries hard. I still have no idea how they work. Luckily wifeanon does, and through her i'm granted access to this more socially connected social domain. Through her, I also meet the menfolk connected to her wimminfolk friends. And we now have lasting connections that would have never been created without having that.
Since the OP post is slightly baity, and since this forum is slightly baity in the first place with some of its groupthink, I'll just head off any accusations about my comments here by saying that I do mostly agree with two things though about wimminfolk psychology: they do seem more emotional and tend to think communism could actually work at the state level AS WELL AS the family level. I think this is 100% false. At the same time, I do think this works at the family level. And so, there we are then.
Open to comments and critiques.
peace and love, ya'll.