It is what it is. It has many benefits and it is not going to be reversed, but it has negative effects on social and racial inequality.
If a person educates their own child, or cooks their own meals, or provides other domestic services, that labor does not get taxed, does not contribute to making distant investors rich, and does not employ union labor.
(I am male and I have done those all of those things at times.)
Liz Warren points out that an "at home" family member can often get a job to supplement or replace the wages of a primary wage earner; long-term changes could be weathered by the secondary wage earner becoming the primary, or it could be a temporary job to save some money or pay off some debt.
It is not a subject we have good conversations on because it is so inflammatory.
Not for me. Even if wages don't go up, productivity does, and that makes things cheaper. I don't think we would be able to produce and consume so much with only half the workforce.
As for the destruction of families, that's going to happen under capitalism anyway. Free markets don't like nepotism and families don't like mobility of labor.
For the people who don't benefit from capitalism, it's a very bad deal to them because they gave up the safety nets of familial bonds in exchange for nothing. It's why conservatives aren't enthusiastic about capitalism and free markets (anymore?).
If a person educates their own child, or cooks their own meals, or provides other domestic services, that labor does not get taxed, does not contribute to making distant investors rich, and does not employ union labor.
(I am male and I have done those all of those things at times.)
Liz Warren points out that an "at home" family member can often get a job to supplement or replace the wages of a primary wage earner; long-term changes could be weathered by the secondary wage earner becoming the primary, or it could be a temporary job to save some money or pay off some debt.
It is not a subject we have good conversations on because it is so inflammatory.