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Societal collapse looks a lot more like the powerlines not being fixed then advertising dollars being inefficiently spent.

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Is the implication that we need big, strong men to do big, strong man work? Because that era already has one foot out the door.

You have electricity because of men. You have running water because of men. You have sewage and plumbing because of men. You have internet because of men. It's not women smashing apart concrete and installing cables and pipes, it's men. Most women I know struggle to pour themselves a drink from a newly open gallon jug. You are a fool if you believe a team of women can go out in a hurricane and replace powerlines at anywhere near the same rate that a team of men can.

Machines have already supplanted male strength in most of the ways it used to be indispensable. Do you see that trend reversing any time soon? Any serious observer can only see that trend accelerating, rapidly.

And no one is calling for an end to men. Are you kidding me?? But pretending that men's size and strength is some irreplaceable virtue is laughable.

Machines designed and built by men, first of all. And secondly, there's no machine that actually installs the internet cable, or fixes the transformer, or installs your toilet. That's all done by hand, by men.

It's not just size and strength either, there are very stark differences in visual-spatial reasoning, among other mental differences.

That’s true in a zero gravity environment.

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