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.
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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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