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> household care [...] is not [...] appropriately valued monetarily > since women do more house work What if it is valued appropriately? E.g. (1) I don't valu

by tomp 9y ago

> household care [...] is not [...] appropriately valued monetarily > since women do more house work What if it is valued appropriately? E.g. (1) I don't value the housework you do at all, nor does pretty much anyone else in the society... sure, you can put a $ value on e.g. cleaning (hiring a cleaning service) or cooking (hiring a chef), but it won't be clean to your standard and it won't be your favourite food; (2) it's possible, and in my (admittedly anecdotal) experience quite likely, than women value household care more than men - so they want to do more of it. Of course, not everybody, but even on average that could have a significant effect.

UncleMeat 9y ago
But do you think this effect could be culturally formed? That would still make it worth tackling.
- tomp 9y ago
  > That would still make it worth tackling. Why? In my opinion, only if you can replace it with something better... E.g. speaking English is culturally formed, but so what? I don't have kids yet, but I've thought a lot about how to raise any future children I might (well, want to) have. My current thinking is that I will raise them differently, boys and girls, according to what I see the most probably outcome (e.g. for each to be heterosexual). Sure, I might turn out to be wrong, but (1) you can't avoid putting some preconceptions in a child's mind (after all, that's what "raising children" means), and (2) as long as they can consciously choose a different path (e.g. "I'm actually gay, I'll optimize my life for that") I think that's mean-variance optimized choice. It's like, well your kid could be Mozart but you screwed them completely because you taught them guitar, stupid you... but then, there's no way you could have known, and a guitar is probably still better than complete lack of music, so it's a good choice overall.
clairity 9y ago
so what women want doesn't have value?

by tomp 9y ago

UncleMeat 9y ago

But do you think this effect could be culturally formed? That would still make it worth tackling.

tomp 9y ago
> That would still make it worth tackling. Why? In my opinion, only if you can replace it with something better... E.g. speaking English is culturally formed, but so what? I don't have kids yet, but I've thought a lot about how to raise any future children I might (well, want to) have. My current thinking is that I will raise them differently, boys and girls, according to what I see the most probably outcome (e.g. for each to be heterosexual). Sure, I might turn out to be wrong, but (1) you can't avoid putting some preconceptions in a child's mind (after all, that's what "raising children" means), and (2) as long as they can consciously choose a different path (e.g. "I'm actually gay, I'll optimize my life for that") I think that's mean-variance optimized choice. It's like, well your kid could be Mozart but you screwed them completely because you taught them guitar, stupid you... but then, there's no way you could have known, and a guitar is probably still better than complete lack of music, so it's a good choice overall.

clairity 9y ago

so what women want doesn't have value?