That function used to be played by slaves, not houses. In other words: our entire country's financial system was built at one time on the widespread recognition that farmwork is skilled labor.
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I think we can say with confidence that slaveowners were some of the most outrageous penny pinchers known to humankind. If they were paying extra for experienced labor, there was a real good reason.
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Three years. That's more than an associate's degree. And it's what it takes to get good enough at farm work to be worth real money. (Ideally for yourself as a free laborer, not for your powdered-wigged pimp).
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Replying to @SarahTaber_bww @SwiftOnSecurity
An associate degree takes fifteen years of education, not three. The first thirteen years aren’t at university, but are still necessary to get a degree. But they’re not (mostly) needed for a farm labourer.
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Are you purposefully missing the point or what?
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It’s ok, he’s (accidentally?) making the case for reproductive labor (mostly done by <guess who?>) being at the foundations of capitalism, then and now.
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Reproductive labor? Do you mean the propagation of the species, or is that farming terminology?
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I see. So is the point that making humans is necessary for capitalism to function? Because that doesn't seem particularly insightful.
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The next question to ask is, are the people performing that labor being fairly compensated for it? Does the capitalist system acknowledge its debt to the unpaid work of raising good, sane, pro-social people?
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If you look at e.g. maternity and paternity leave policies, the answer is often “no”. Hence the system has a blind spot. Some would even call it a willful blindness, an exploitative one. If the system makes it harder to raise people, is it sustainable?
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