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As if your wife did not work… That is what they think (“what, so you have no job?”).
by pfortuny 4y ago
As if your wife did not work… That is what they think (“what, so you have no job?”).
- mantas 4y agoYes. Somehow same stuff becomes a proper work if we hired a nanny. I guess „work“ depends on generating GDP for many people. Sort of like me cooking dinner is not work, yet cook at a restaurant is working.
- orwin 4y ago> I guess „work“ depends on generating GDP for many people Exactly. If a city council hire a gardener, buy his tools and pay him 40k/yr, the nominal GDP will be 40k (+ the tool's prices for the first year and their maintenance costs). If the city council pay a company 80k/yr to take care of the same, they will hire a gardener 40k, buy tools, and the GDP will be 120k/yr (+ tools prices etc). Even though the production was the same. If you wife worked and you had to pay a nanny, the GDP of your country would rise more than if the nanny was formed to take on your wife job.
- mantas 4y agoI know the numbers. But IMO that's wrong. Dinner is dinner, wether I cooked it myself or paid someone to cook it for me. Rat race for GDP without context must die.