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We apparently cannot: >Even in a perfectly just society, there will be people who just don’t want to do any care work at all: they will prefer to freeride rath
by allemagne 3y ago
We apparently cannot:
>Even in a perfectly just society, there will be people who just don’t want to do any care work at all: they will prefer to freeride rather than do their fair share, whatever that turns out to be.
>... If we really want an equitable division of care work, some people will need to be coerced into doing it.
>... Unwanted work can serve as a teacher, shushing the would-be brat that lurks in every human heart.
>... When a sulky teenager is made to set the table by her parents, her labor is alienated; she would rather be doing something else.
>But to know whether the teenager is wronged, it is not enough to know how she feels about setting the table.
>... Someone whose work serves a democratic community—a community for which they serve as a trustee, rather than merely as a mute resource—is not wronged, regardless of whether her work is dull or stimulating, cherished or resented.