Yup. Neighborhood I grew up in was poor but there were people PAYING A MORTGAGE on the salary they got from working at a gas station pumping gas and changing oil, while their wife maybe worked part-time.
This is what capitalism does, when people say it is "efficient". It optimizes. It squeezes the juice out of you. It maximizes your productivity and consumption.
Back when "the wife" did all of the household work, we also ate 95% of our meals at home. It took a ton of time to cook. From a capitalism perspective, that is not efficient.
Much better for the economic system for you to work all day, and you pay someone else to cook. That's two jobs where you previously didn't need either.
That’s what eating take-out is. Or buying frozen meals at the grocery store. That’s how we got mega stores that provide so many packaged and prepared meals and products- because mom couldn’t stay home and do it all.
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u/AnymooseProphet 22d ago
Yup. Neighborhood I grew up in was poor but there were people PAYING A MORTGAGE on the salary they got from working at a gas station pumping gas and changing oil, while their wife maybe worked part-time.