<span>As more people move out of poverty and into the middle class, there is more discretionary income, which can be spent on entertainment. Mass entertainment is formed in response to the demands of the middle class, and then provides new industries which then create more jobs, moving more people into the middle class, to create more discretionary income. It's a nice circle</span>
Betty Friedan's argument in <em>The feminine mystique</em> (1963) is made from the point of view of psychology and sociology through the analysis of surveys and interviews with women. Friedan was trying to explain why the surveys showed women were unhappy in their domestic lives.
The author found that women being educated to believe that domestic life should be their primary objective made women feel worthless.
This education for a domestic life happened through family, school, college, and media. There weren't many places women could get out of this destiny.
They felt worthless because a domestic life by itself doesn't provide a sense of realization and accomplishment. That's why, according to Friedan, it was so common to see women seeking fulfillment through community projects and the like.
<em>The feminine mystique</em> was a bestseller and one of the starters of the second-wave feminism in the 60s.
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In the 1820s, Americans found conditions in Texas to be much to their liking. The Mexican government encouraged immigration and strove to ease the process for Americans, allowing them a great degree of freedom in choosing the location of settlements and the political organization as well.
The opportunity cost is the value of the next best alternative foregone. Every decision necessarily means giving up other options, which all have a value. The opportunity cost is the value one could have derived from using the same resources another way, though this is not always easily quantifiable.
