Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
2 min readMar 28, 2024

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Politicians no longer call citizens citizens were they have a duty to the state and other responsibilities

They now call citizens stakeholders and consumers that's not a good thing reducing society to pure consumption

If a woman stays home to raise children that's a public good but it's a public good that's not a recognized within society

Having children and the personal sacrifices that entails are not valued and because they're not valued it means that being a mother or a father

Doesn't convey status

People take action due to incentives of their societies

The Greek Kingdoms and Roman civilization collapsed due to them not having children and raised in families

Rome's first emperor or first citizen Augustus tried to reverse the problem of Roman men not having children

On another topic the decline in the quality of education can be linked to women entering the job market

Previously the only way a woman could gain status in the profession is teaching and nursing so the most capable women went into those professions

Now that they have been liberated it has contributed to the decline in teaching quality

If you go to a university and have a lecturer on investing chances are they're not good investors themselves same goes for people's who teach business and marketing

In contrast if you have a history professor or a professor who studies Russian literature chances are they are incredibly

Highly skilled in the profession

It's all how people respond to incentives and what kind of person they are

Steve Wozniak the co-founder of Apple left the company because he wasn't cut out to operate in the corporate world

Hence him focusing on engineering and teaching

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Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley
Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

Written by Jonathan Stephen Harry Riley

I have been writing from 2014 to the present day; my writing is focused on history, politics, culture, geopolitics and other related topics.

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