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I Have An Even Better TV Show Idea

June 23, 2026, 7:52 am

I saw this while doomscrolling Instagram the other day

Pretty sure the tradwife folks are targeting something more like the 1950's than the 19th century, but it could be funny -- though not at funny as, say, sending the housewives of Orange County or the Kardashians back to a pioneer home.

But I have a MUCH better idea.  Let's take Democratic Socialist influencers and politicians and send THEM to actually live the life they are promoting, say in 1930's Ukraine or 1960's China.

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I'm not saying there is no temptation, but it is really just too freaking evil.

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PBS had a series, Frontier House, that comes close. I only watched a bit of it, but it was interesting to see modern families try to live like settlers in Montana in the late 1800s.

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Lefties used to complain that the Industrial Revolution "forced" weavers from their home workplaces into great soulless factories and offices.

Now they complain that "remote working" forces the laptop classes out of the offices to a life of lonely isolation working from home.

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Targeting the 1950s is to not know history. The women born in the 1920s and 1930s were an anomaly in human history in their marriage rates, youthful marriage and near universal motherhood.

But it was all underpinned by the steady growth of the income of the bottom 90% of earners from 1948-1973. That has been near flatline since.

And for late Boomer men (1957-1964), only 41% had continuous high employment from age 27-49. And 34% never achieved steady employment even late in life.

"Over the past several decades, U.S. men’s paid work has transformed from a state of high stability and continuity to a state of increased instability and precarity. Despite this, full-time employment throughout adulthood remains the presumed standard for modern American men. The authors investigated the diversity of men’s workforce experiences using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth “National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979 cohort” and identified six multitrajectories of men’s time spent employed, unemployed, and out of the labor force from ages 27 to 49. The authors identified one multitrajectory of steady work, three of increasing unemployment or time out of work, one of increasing steady work, and one of intermittent work. Contrary to conventional assumptions, only 41 percent of men followed a trajectory of continuous, high employment over the duration of their prime earning years. This suggests that most men do not achieve the “ideal worker norm,” raising implications for how research and policy conceptualize men’s work experiences."

---The Myth of Men’s Stable, Continuous Labor Force Attachment: Multitrajectories of U.S. Baby Boomer Men’s Employment, 2023, PMCID: PMC11219017

Anyone believe younger men have had higher rates of continuous high employment than even late Boomers?

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There was a great story many years ago about an exploratory company whose men found a White Russian family living way out of time in Siberia. They fled Russia when the Reds killed the Tsar and could not be talked into rejoining mid 1960s Russia. A few years later one man went back to the place but the family was gone. I’d pay to see all the evil little commies dropped into Siberia with nothing but a hand axe. I would let the pilots select the altitude.

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