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paternalism the attitude or policy of a government or other authority that manages the affairs of a country, company, community, etc., in the manner of a father, esp in usurping individual responsibility and the liberty of choice How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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46) Mid-nineteenth-century paternalists in the West Riding provided domestic training to mill lasses who were expected to drop out of the workforce once married. Like public health activists of the mind, a new wave of paternalists, including a spate of prominent psychologists and economists, draw on the latest research on happiness to argue that the state must "encourage" us to buy smaller houses, travel by train, and get out of the office--for our own good. This makes me uneasy; we saw what happened to the benevolent paternalists of Silicon Valley when the sector hit hard times, and it wasn't good. |
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