Jesus said some pretty harsh things about families, but religious people nowadays often conflate religiosity with glorifying the 50s family.
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I think this is discourse we've still got going on today I mean who doesn't feel like that The concept of "emotional labor" gets blasted a lot as "neoliberal" Capitalism brainwashing you to turn everything into a transaction, to demand an hourly wage for being a friend
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Yeah, although I think it's not properly an aspect of capitalism itself, but a critique of it: emotional labor is usually discussed in terms of its alienation.
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some interesting background here, arguing that local villages were effectively running on gift economies, and that traveling merchants charging market prices were in some sense "cheating" by those standardshttps://acoup.blog/2020/08/21/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-iv-markets-and-non-farmers/ …
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i.e. that the village was running on a sort of invisible credit. i have a good harvest this year and yours sucks, i don't take advantage of it--in fact, i give much of it away through feasts, dowries, blah blah blah--because who knows what the next harvest brings
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