Late-Stage capitalism is a term that socialist have been throwing around since 1960. Its completely meaningless, its just one of those terms that socialist use to throw literally anything into that they don't like. Because of course if you identified anything other then 'capitalism' as the problem, then anything other then 'socialism' could not be the solution. And its a-priority clear that socialism will be the solution. And using that terms also frees you from actually coming up with a solution other then then just talking about 'global revolution' or whatever socialist cliche you want to come up with.

Instead of getting your socialists credits up by calling anything that bad 'capitalism' we should be smart enough to understand that other technological and social factors are at play.

Then blaming everything, all the issues on some economic crisis rather then any long term forces is another typical lazy approach, ignoring trends that existed before the economic problems and persist long after the crash.

When we are talking about the nuclear family, lets be clear, it is the social state and government pensions that have a lot to do with that. And the availability of porn and other alternatives to getting married has a lot to do with the general liberalization of society and feminism. Giving everybody the freedom to pick their own partner when both partners are free of family requirements, free of economic pressure (woman can support their own lives) and with sex more available 'thanks' to dating app and general sexual liberation.

Of course on the far right they call all these things evil and wanting to go back to 'traditional values'. But even if we don't agree with the 'solution' it is true to some extent.

For example, in terms of how many kids woman have, if you only look at 'natives' and exclude immigrant backgrounds, the trend has been ongoing in a lot of places including in Europe (Italy or Spain). But in most Pop-Stars don't shave their heads, in the US its the opposite, a Pop-Star having a 'high-value' boyfriends (or many sexual partners) makes her more desirable. So example like this are always cherry-picked. I don't think Japan is showing the future here.

The overall drop in fertility in men is also universal, again something often cried about by right wing people. There are many other such trends that are global to some extend. And of course not sure how socialism would fix most of them.

> In late-stage capitalism these same milestones become financially punishing and logistically impossible.

Except of course that people used to be 10x poorer and did just fine in reproducing. The claim that 'late-stage capitalism' is so completely repressive that it is impossible and so much worse then the 1920 is just baseless nonsense. Coal minors in 1920 managed to have enough kids, do you want to switch with them?

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> celebrity is necessarily a fictitious character in everyday life

Because celebrates in the past showed their true selves to people right? What even is this argument.