So, when the rich discovered that they could force us to have 80 hour work weeks because both adults in the home could work, prices suddenly climbed. Then, it turns out we used to rely on one of the adults in the home doing unpaid work (cooking, cleaning, shopping, house maintenance, and notably raising the children).
Recognizing that women should be treated as humans is mandatory. They should be able to be single or be the breadwinner while their spouse stays home.
Turning around and mandating that a family requires 80 hours per week of work to survive at the expense of everything else that made life worth living is crushing our ability to be humans with families.
Of course, the looming population bust due to overworking everyone is making governments and the rich fearful of their safety and continued personal enrichment, but it would require taxing the rich and making governments work for us to solve the problem so it’s likely just going to be a huge mess with untold suffering instead of a graceful shift to a humanistic world with healthy lives.
The shortest average work week globally is found in the Netherlands, where it is 30 hours per week. There are also substantial daycare subsidies, a quarterly sum paid per child, and the highest minimum income guarantee in the world. The fertility rate, while not at South Korea levels, is 1.44, well below replacement level.
This community is garbage. How is this “Not the Onion” content?
I never had children because I didn’t want them to have to experience this shithole timeline. The conservatives and birthers can try if they want to make up for the population’s general abdication of parenthood, but for those of us that refuse to play the slavery game, it won’t really matter at our ends anyway.
We want more babies!
