The Weimar Republic had hyperinflation and crashed and burned real fast, but they spent 20 years building the bonfire under themselves, just as we in the west have been doing….

thanks for the comments, all commenters, by the way

“Moving forward” to me means a new seasons in which the weather kills off the daffodils. In other words, the social climate becomes frosty towards the idea of giving women a free ride.

There are two broad areas where women get a free ride. First, they can get reasonably well paid job in which they produce very little of value, so they don’t need a man to support them. Second, they can get benefits and services from the government that far outweigh what little taxes they pay – education, healthcare, family court and police enforcement of claims against men.

So the end of the free ride implies that economic and social conditions will create a much tougher work environment, where there are fewer jobs for unproductive people and employers don’t tolerate any slackers. And it also implies a greatly reduced tolerance for government waste, handouts and benefits and bureaucratic interference in peoples lives.

Tough workplaces presuppose a great depression or a permanent downshift in the developed economies. Small government can only come about if tax revenues collapse, governments are forced to rein in spending by an inability to borrow, and it becomes politically impossible to raise taxes to cover spending because incomes have collapsed.

In other words, if the West gets poor enough, governments will be broke and forced to slash public sector employment, slash benefits, slash services, and this will involve a reduction in areas like “child protection”, family court and police enforcement of frivolous claims.
Employers will be demanding that everyone work hard, even women, and there will be no more cushy jobs that produce nothing.

But this kind of “permanent depression” scenario can only happen after governments lose their ability to borrow. But if they can’t borrow, they’ll just print money. So they have to lose the ability to print as well – which would happen if inflation gets so out of control that it becomes the number one political issue, and governments who print money get thrown out.

So maybe I can see this. The West slides into a long term economic funk as our bankrupt policies catch up with us. Governments print money to keep the whole charage going, but eventually inflation gets so out of control that people are struggling to put food on the table and they take to the streets demanding change. A {new?) party at the next election promises to end inflation, balance the budget and stop printing money, but warn they will have to make HUGE cuts to government programs in EVERY area to achieve this. Things are so bad that they actually get elected in on a program of “blood, sweat and tears” and they make drastic cuts to all programs.

The result is that there is smaller government, lower pay for everyone, fewer entitlements, less goverment interference, everyone works hard and minds there own business.

Women now find they have to work HARD to make ends meet, many are unemployed, it’s hard to find a man with a good job and the men are a lot less tolerant of bullshit because they have it tough too. Everyone is much poorer. The cops are too busy responding to break-ins to listen to false allegations.

The social mood is heavily against free-loaders so there is little tolerance for people who waste the courts time with lawsuits. Laws get changed to reduce payouts in the case of divorce because people have little tolerance for people who don’t work hard.

So I’m imagining a situation where economic conditions in the West approach that of the Third World, and because everyone is working hard and living poor they resent anyone who gets an easy ride, including lazy women.

To actually get to that point I think you’d need a twenty year depression, a period of high inflation bordering on hyperinflation that makes it hard just to put food on the table, a drop of living standards by at least half as First and Third world meet in the middle, the bankruptcy of our governments, and a sense that our society had failed and we’re all doing it tough, so we can’t tolerate people who don’t pull their weight.
Things have to get bad enough that you can run for office on a platform of turning the world upside down, and they’ll vote you in.

I think that’s possible, but not this decade.

NOT. GOING. TO. HAPPEN.”

No doubts on this one! It would take a complete reversal of entropy. I do like this post and will have to read it a few more times to fully absorb it’s beauty.

P.S. A NSFH warning would have been nice! Jesus Christ! H=Humanity!

Where there is incentive to do wrong, wrong is usually done.

I do agree with you though, there is no going back, only forward. All large empires in history crumble from within.

So … how do we help it along?