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Q So if, if, if there's a message to folks here about how we should be telling other people what some of those high level values are, what would you tell us to be promoting more that we don't?
A I mean, I think, yeah, marriage, attentive care for, for children, um, I think that, that is, that is a big one. Um, I mean, it's really interesting. When I talk about, ah, marriage, a lot of people immediately pivot, and they say, well, are you saying that it's bad to be a single parent, or are you trying to, what, denigrate single moms? And this seems to be the only domain where people make this suggestion. If, if you say, we should, we should applaud college graduates, no one ever says, oh, does that mean we're insulting people who didn't go to college? Is that what you're saying? And, no, that's not what we're saying. You can, You can praise one thing and confer status on, on an activity, and that doesn't necessarily imply that you're trying to denigrate everyone else, um, so I think this is something that we could do. Focus more on, sort of, family, uh, uh, early, uh, development issues, uh, for, for young kids. Um, again, childhood instability is a far greater predictor than poverty, and yet we spend so much time talking about economics.
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Q Where does society go at the limit of all of this?
A Yeah, I think one thing that we could do is, um, so, so, Melissa Kearney, she's a professor of economics at the University of Maryland, she just released a book called The Two-Parent Privilege, and she points out a lot of the sort of the economic issues, and I think that's, you know, it's, it's fine, but I, again, I think that's kind of a narrow-minded way of looking at this, but one thing that she points out that I really like is that elites could do sort of more to, to promote values, to sort of what, uh, uh, preach what you practice, uh, there are ways that we could just speak more about this, I think a lot of, a lot of people who agree with a lot of my writing and the things that I say, they're reluctant to express this publicly, and it's kind of, you know, one reason why they like me is because I'll say it, but I think, ah, you, one, one sort of obligation or duty you have if you are a fortunate member of society is to accept that you may take some slings and arrows for promoting values that you know are good. Um, you know, if you've lived a fortunate life, um, That, yeah, there's, there's that kind of noblesse oblige that I think that we've, we've lost.
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