James Sexton
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Like I'm very interested in understanding why other people feel the way they feel.
Like people I vigorously disagree with.
Like I wanna understand where we diverge.
I wanna understand like, cause I genuinely believe like if you were right, I would agree with you, you know?
And I wanna believe that like, you know, there's, I don't know that, I don't believe that like people are evil.
I think that people,
aren't evil.
They do evil things because they mistake it for happiness.
But I don't think that they do it insidiously, nefariously.
I think they're short-sighted.
I think they don't realize what the second order effects are going to be.
Yeah, I think gender... Look, I think...
I think if we went back to a very traditional economic structure in this country where women were at home and men were working, it would be better for the divorce rate.
Like we would not have as many divorces.
I think that a function of late capitalism was let's get women into the workforce as quickly as possible.
Like two is better than one.
Like two economic cogs in the machine is better than one.
And by the way, they didn't sell it that way.
They sold it properly.
They sold it as, why can't your mom be a doctor?