I see this all around me in various families, from parents 2 kids. Contemporary employment & education often looks 2 pressured 4 the rewards on offer. Staying home & going online becomes a habit that's hard 2 break. Most diagnoses/cures I hear don't match how rapidly/recently this has happened

I see this all around me. Lots of families where one/two people (normally inc. Dad) working flat out and close to burn-out and then one/two people saying they really don't like the look of that (brutal) world, whether it's employment or education, and choosing 2 opt out and increasingly live online.

I'm trapped @stevenklein.bsky.social but hoping for a way out! Rather worried by how much medium can dictate message...

Yes indeed. Three weeks to submit so don't miss out...

...there's an old phrase in English (with no doubt equivalents elsewhere) that 'cleanliness is close to Godliness'. Felt pretty true during Covid, though what I'm now wondering is, maybe 'nastiness is close to dirtiness', in which case philosophers should be careful of getting their hands dirty...

Good question! We also know here that, when people have actually dirty hands, or are surrounded by dirt (e.g. an overflowing bin in the corner of the room), they tend to produce more authoritarian/conservative/punitive judgements when asking to respond to hypothetical cases...

...there are some interesting other cases around though, e.g. the British royal family. Their wealth depends on regular approval of democratic representatives via the 'sovereign grant' and 'crown estate', meaning that, curiously, they get to enjoy & exhibit extreme wealth without really owning it...

Mainly thinking of Musk today, though agree with you that, in any case, effects can trump origins. I think for me the Wilkinson/Pickett 'spirit level' material 20yrs ago was crucial to my connecting 'normative behaviourism' with extreme wealth reduction, though now rethinking that via your work...