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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you who think being a stay at home mom is useless because you aren’t earning money and maybe not volunteering or doing much that is intellectual: what constitutes a “useful” life and why is that important? Can people with disabilities that prevent them from doing those things lead useful lives? [/quote]

Exactly, and apparently nannies and daycare workers are "useless" as well, since they are doing the same thing as a SAHM, except for the pay. [/quote]

Right. It’s clearly work. I pay for my child to attend preschool so I can work at my job teaching high school. Why do I make a decent salary that’s more than twice what they make? Why is that work worth pay if it’s done in a daycare but not by a parent at home? It’s clearly work.

I would love to teach very part time but we need my salary. Our corporate overlords have us trained very well.

Some of you should add Bullshit Jobs to your reading list. Raising children is not a bullshit job, yet it pays nothing if done by the parent? Yet the corporate litigators take it in objectively making the world worse.

Capitalism sits a helluva drug. [/quote]

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