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Better than being dependent on a soulless employer, while still having to take care of the family. Actually, being able to depend on someone you trust is the r

• Apocryphon 3y ago
  In premodern times, it wasn't so much trust as societal mandate. You have to imagine that domestic abuse and neglect ran rife and was just accepted as par for the course.
  • sharts 3y ago
    What’s so different in modern times? Exploitative employers have taken their place via social mandate.
    • Apocryphon 3y ago
      As pointed out elsewhere, far more flexibility in changing employees over changing domestic partners, even if that has gotten easier as well. And as terrible as bad employers might be, they usually cannot inflict the levels of physical and emotional abuse that bad spouses can. Business, not personal.