funny how stay-at-home is now the earner activity and going out to slay supply chain dragons is the spender activity... and "breadwinning" is now unbundled into "making money" and "actually sourcing bread reliably"
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the rise of home delivery for a subset of needs has obscured the more important fact that securing supplies is now a venture-out type activity
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inversion of domesticity
then: earning was like hunting, spending was like gathering
now: earning is like gathering, spending is like hunting
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pre-pandemic, wife mostly stayed home and I'd "go to work" to starbucks, now I mostly stay home and wife goes supply-chain-wrangling out there
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spending is starting to be the tougher job
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Confused by "is *now* a venture-out"... Are you saying things that used to be deliverable now aren't?
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In theory they’re deliverable, in practice reliable supply requires going out
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