“Policies that remove gender based barriers to employment are good for the economy, due to the basic fact of life that housewife is a ludicrously low-productivity job sector”.
What do you mean “remove gender barriers”? Do you mean policies requiring companies to hire be “non-sexist” in their hiring practices etc.? Because if those practices increased productivity companies would use them anyway.
Heck, near as I can tell, a good chunk of the wealth gain’s of the past 50 years has mostly been the working out of the productivity implications of household appliances − 2 income households are possible because the electric stove, the refrigerator and the vaccum means keeping house isn’t a full time job.
Also have both spouses work tends to result in the couple having a lot fewer children. In fact in another thread people were complaining that they couldn’t afford to have kids because they couldn’t subsist on one income.
I don’t think that distinction matters much to the point Azathoth123 is making. (Personally I’d put the family in that thread in the grey area between “couldn’t subsist on one income” and “maybe could but it would be terrible”. Husband and wife on $10k/year each. I wouldn’t want to try supporting a family of three on $10k/year, though maybe it could be done if “supporting” means “living on the streets and barely managing to feed” or “scraping by using every bit of government-supplied assistance available”.)
I wouldn’t want to try supporting a family of three on $10k/year
I wouldn’t want to support a family of one on $10K/year. But I think the context of this discussion is that the middle class feels the need for two incomes and so the wife works instead of being a housewife.
What do you mean “remove gender barriers”? Do you mean policies requiring companies to hire be “non-sexist” in their hiring practices etc.? Because if those practices increased productivity companies would use them anyway.
Unless there’s some kind of PD-like situation whereby sexist hiring practices benefit your company to the expense of everyone else’s.
What do you mean “remove gender barriers”? Do you mean policies requiring companies to hire be “non-sexist” in their hiring practices etc.? Because if those practices increased productivity companies would use them anyway.
Also have both spouses work tends to result in the couple having a lot fewer children. In fact in another thread people were complaining that they couldn’t afford to have kids because they couldn’t subsist on one income.
I am sure they can subsist on one income, it’s just that they don’t want to.
I don’t think that distinction matters much to the point Azathoth123 is making. (Personally I’d put the family in that thread in the grey area between “couldn’t subsist on one income” and “maybe could but it would be terrible”. Husband and wife on $10k/year each. I wouldn’t want to try supporting a family of three on $10k/year, though maybe it could be done if “supporting” means “living on the streets and barely managing to feed” or “scraping by using every bit of government-supplied assistance available”.)
I wouldn’t want to support a family of one on $10K/year. But I think the context of this discussion is that the middle class feels the need for two incomes and so the wife works instead of being a housewife.
Unless there’s some kind of PD-like situation whereby sexist hiring practices benefit your company to the expense of everyone else’s.
I wasn’t aware that all firms are 100% rational and efficient. What causes them to fail, IYO?
Hurrah! Just what is needed in a world of over 7 billion people.