Is it wrong though? It seems to fit the concept of opportunity cost pretty well. Every moment you spend raising a child is a moment not spent making money. Ergo, if you want people to raise children you should pay them enough to not be doing something else with their time.
if it were my job to create propaganda for the purpose of reducing the human population, one thing i would do is reframe parenting as “unpaid labor”https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1258094215361413121 …
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correct in the technical sense, as any number of things can be reduced in such a way, from cooking for friends to practicing starcraft. and no, we don't value parenting as highly as we should. but the language is degrading, dehumanizing, and, let's be real, purposely divisive.
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I’ve noticed this more and more over the past year.... doing your own family’s laundry is now “unpaid labor”
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Omg mike just have kids
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my point is not that parenting is unchallenging, nor do i think our culture values it highly enough. my point is that this language is degrading and dehumanizing.
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“Kids are like roommates that don’t pay rent”
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it's just a ruse to tax income the second time
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Except the ‘unpaid labor‘ frame makes perfect sense if you’re trying to make sense of the income/wealth gap between men and women
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It can be analytically accurate in certain contexts and also a socially harmful framing
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oh well. guess I blocked NYT.. you should do the same.
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