Before the the recent normalization of women in the workforce, I’m not sure that it was intuitive that raising children was expensive since the childcare was not paid in money. From a certain perspective, that makes those offering the premise look bad.
Not only is this argument inductively weak, the premise seems obviously false, since childcare is actually quite expensive.
Yes, it’s quite annoying, and also neglects runtime costs.
Also the argument applies equally well to lots of non-intellectual tasks where a cheap human could well be a replacement for an expensive machine.
Before the the recent normalization of women in the workforce, I’m not sure that it was intuitive that raising children was expensive since the childcare was not paid in money. From a certain perspective, that makes those offering the premise look bad.