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[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who says I don't do these things? Can you turn making art into a job if you want to do it for a few hours each month and aren't particularly good? Can you turn child-raising into a job if you only raise your own? Can you turn "community helping" into a job if you just help whoever you can for small things without any particular qualifications? Does cooking food for myself, family and friends pay anything? Does tending my garden pay anything?

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

You've bought into the toxic idea that only paid work is real. Raising your own kids is work. Cooking food for your own family is work, growing food for your family is work.

This kind of labor, and much more, is just as real and important as paid labor.

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The fuck? You do know you're in a thread about "jobs", not about generic "work", right? No one said anything about generic work, this thread was about jobs, i.e. getting paid so you have enough to live.

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly, and that's a big problem. We need to talk about it, whenever the topic comes up. It's called "invisible labor" for a reason.

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I have no idea what you're trying to talk about. You're not making sense to me.

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