if by womens work you mean the birthing and raising of little people, long term, id say women’s work will be valued even lower, probably quite a bit lower because as i see it, people are increasingly worth less and less, maybe even have a negative value in most cases. people are not needed. we dont want excess syrians. we dont need more workers. we have enough consumers.theres no work for them, no money for them, they a re just sucking up resources and polluting us into obliivion.
probably, in an efficient marketplace, we need to value birthing even lower. perhaps even tax it. yes, why not; a $20,000 tax per birth … I mean, people pay more than that to adopt a child. thats not fair. we used th e tax code to give child tax credits. if we want true equality, lets stop making women into baby machines, lets get the tax code working int he right direction of saving the planet and save us from ourselves.
someties i feel like we are becoming like those desertified african countries, where it is just incomprehensible how the women can keep having babies in spite of the horrid conditions, the lack of food and water and opportunity. yet they keep on having kids, lots of them, more than we do, probably, on average.
should those birthing women be lauded for doing women’s work in those desertified lands? Should they get even more food than the women who ahve no kids?
Similarly, in our country, i sometimes darkly think that reproduction shoudl only be for the successful, the people who have the money and social capital to see it through. making “birthing” pay higher is just like promoting childbirth among the most impoverished and desperate in foreign lands. we dont want your offspring.
this is a very bleak view, and may not represent my actual viewpoint, but it is a thought that crosses my neural pathways from time to time. people of america, you just cannot afford to have a baby. some days, this is my true view. in my own case, we were marginally qualified, i’d say barely ont he edge of makign it. and we were doing well…
so this whole bringing children into the world thing is really a net loser. we definitely dont want to incentivize even more people to make more people, especially dumb people. women and mass reproduction are obsolete, maybe, except for the smartest and healthiest ones.
what else is women’s work, exactly, other than making kids and child care? everything else seems pretty much split or outsourced. i guess we can argue about who is doing more housework, but that’s just artificially created work, or work that need not be done. what else is essentially women’s work that cant be outsourced pretty easily…
i imagine the retort is, society cannot go on without more people…and yeah, maybe that’s true, a society based on pyramid schemes, leverage, and ever increasing consumption. but society could go on a really long time even if the birth rate dropped 90%….we’d skew older….but wed go on…
more people, more births , more competition, more fighting over resources.
the way to peace is to stop all this damned women’s work, stop creating more people fighting over less and less scraps. women’s work is worth way less than nothing, it is in fact the instigator of wars and deatha dn destruction, this ceaseless ever increasing humanity. no it’s not men destroying the world, but births, slowly, human by human, crawling into this world with infinite hunger and desire, and men, men can do nothing but fight for more resources for all these people, people, more and more peoples. stop, for the love of G-d, for the sake of us all, please stop all this women’s work. or at least tax the hell out of it. maybe i coudlve talked my wife out of more kids if there were a hefty tax.
of course, then i would not have my amazing little one…
