A big part of that is because we evolved to be social animals. A single man alone in the Amazonian jungle would have a hard time surviving for an extended amount of time. A tribe, though, would have better prospects.
If you are alone in the wilderness, you're presented all the time with insurmountable trade-offs: Build shelter and you won't be procuring food, prioritize food and then you won't have a shelter to protect yourself.
Working in a team means bigger projects can be tackled, that different needed things can be done in the same time.
And this is one of most important things for the evolution of humans, not only the intelligence, or the ability to make and use tools, but also the ability to live in society, to communicate and build a culture.
The homo sapiens is indeed a remarkable species. But what really make us what we are is not the individual per-se, but our society. Homo is great, for sure, but what is really impressive is not the individual Homo, but humanity.
The really big criminals and tax evaders will ever find a way around this kind of restriction.
This is useful to control the smaller fish. But, also, the cynic in me thinks that the big sharks have lots of friends in high places and politics and public administration and that those restrictions were never intended to catch them on the first place.
I doubt most of these laws are ever intended to catch the big fish -- like in business, the big guys always require special handling to process. For criminals, the big guys should already be so far disassociated with the actual activity that you're not going to catch them with normal crimes. For example, Al Capone was famously trialed on tax evasion, rather than any of the innumerable crimes he committed but couldn't be processed for.
The actual law simply isn't that notable in these cases, because the big guys have enough money to figure out how to navigate it liability-free.
Which is also why the law only really applies to the poor -- with enough time and resources, there's always a workaround.
Small net for small fish. Big net for big fish. There's also no problem with getting criminals to go through extra steps. The more processes, the more room for error.
The point is to not make it convenient for them at all.
The same thing here in Brasil since 2002.
The only difference that there is an artificial restriction that online transfer between banks outside of banking hours will only clear when the banks open again. Other than that most transfer between banks clear in seconds and can be made from your phone.
This artificial restriction is probably going to be lifted this year.
And of course, if seller and buyer have accounts in the same bank, there's no business hours requirement, it will clear in seconds not matter what the time of the day.
Also, depending on the american bank, I usually am able to cash wire transfers coming from the US in the same day, if the american bank sent the wire during brazilian business hours.
Everytime I deal with the American banking system I get appaled by its primitiveness. ACH is basically how banking technology worked on the early 90's in Brasil.
Heuristics. Amount of skin tones mostly. Of course, lots of false positives at that age, and some false negatives due to racial biases of the algorithm. It was crude, but kind of worked.
Hardly. High culture takes a level of attention that someone who is struggling in life hardly will be able to attain.
Moreover, philosophy is concerned with truth, and truth can sometimes be brutal.
It would be almost criminal to recommend reading Nietzsche for someone who lost their job, got cheated and divorced and has some serious disease.
You're right not forcing the issue. But this is something that merits at least a dialogue. You don't have the right to force your partner to do what you want on this, but you have the right to be able to speak about your desires, and having them acknowledged.
Forget about this idea of burden, this is not for you to decide, and if you are serious about that, you should be clear about sharing the workload.
And yes, there are also the specific burdens of pregnancy, lactation that you can't share, but also for plenty of women, there is also a reward for those activities. A reward that you as a man can also only reap vicariously. So, for every woman there will be a different balance of perspectives, some value more the rewards and will be happy having kids, others will feel more actually the burdens. Not your business to decide that.
But, what is your business is to understand what is important to you. To understand that if you feel so strongly about it now, it probably won't go away and that you will resent over time, if not right now.
And then, if you have such different attitudes about this matter, maybe, just maybe, it would be best for both of you to free yourselves from each other.
