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A little over 100 years ago women were only 20% of the labor force. [1] Which is to say, most women did not participate in wage employment.

Now they're ~47%. Which is great! But it also hints that society doesn't need most of the labor for the system to still function.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/about/history



Rather like subsistence farming, everyone got out of housework as soon as possible and into a far less onerous office.


People didn't get out of housework. They're doing housework and office work.


Housework isn’t as onerous now as it was 100 years ago, though.


if I could retire, raise my kids and homeschool them, and do housework instead I would in a second. Nothing is more interesting, more fulfilling, and more challenging then raising the next generation.


"Work" does not exclusively mean "work full time for a wage".


yeah but carrying and raising kids?




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