Being married is a proven effective life behavior. So is saving money, etc. Progressive ideas, by contrast, pretty much by definition lack demonstrated effectiveness. They have unknown and typically unpredictable effects on society.

I’m not suggesting that corporate enforcement of behavior is the best way to go. But we should obviously do it for things that are proven to work before we do it for things that are untested.

That’s a one-way ticket to the societal norm being marriages of convenience with zero regard for marital fidelity.

Lots of non-fascist societies put less weight on unbridled individual self determination and more weight on social infrastructure to help people make good decisions.

I’d argue we lean too heavily in the direction of thinking everyone should figure life out by themselves with no external pressure. This hurts young people, who lack experience and the benefit of hindsight, and less intellectually gifted people, who may lack judgment and impulse control.

People these days indeed actively give destructive advice. Thinking of abandoning your stable long term relationship? “Follow your heart!”

Hitler was a fan of Ford's. Complete opposite. Hitler used Ford techniques. Your assertion is probably "common knowledge" but it is completely wrong. You should probably read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich before commenting further on that window of history. There are also several documentaries that cover this as well. An especially good one is: Hitler: A career (1977).

Interesting to see the different takes. I think the comment you replied to was being tongue in cheek with the essential point that the (I agree horrible) interventions by Ford were at least attempting to be constructive. What we see today is something very different, and in my view much closer to "power for power's sake" control that I think you're associating with facism.