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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]God you people are so dumb. The article is not arguing that people "should" be paid for this work, like getting groceries.

The point is that the time and effort spent on getting groceries is something that is almost always overlooked and it is a necessary task. You can't function in life without food. Someone has to shop for and cook it. Usually that person is not paid for doing and usually they're not even thanked.

The point is that tasks like these should NOT be overlooked. Is that really something you disagree with? [/quote]

I think people think it is dumb because everybody gets groceries, everybody. They don't consider it unpaid work. It's necessary, everybody does it, not just non working people. It's done by everybody so it's a silly thing to count. [/quote]

Just because everybody does it doesn’t mean it isn’t unpaid work, how is this hard to understand? [/quote]

NP. If everyone does it, it's not worth counting, IMO. 1 = 1[/quote]

????

Unpaid labor has a specific, objective definition, the purpose of which is to quantify how much work is being done that isn’t paid. Why include “and things that not everybody does” in the definition? [/quote]

You must not be good at math.  That's okay, let your husband manage the budget.[/quote]

You are responding with emotions instead of logic because you want your mundane efforts that everybody does to count for more.

Caring for an elderly parent all day instead of work is unpaid work.

Getting groceries, driving people around, and bringing your own plate to the sink... not unpaid work. [/quote]

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