This either fetishizes the 1950s and "traditional" values or will be used to people who do. What never gets mentioned is: 1. The existence of a permanent under

This either fetishizes the 1950s and "traditional" values or will be used to people who do. What never gets mentioned is: 1. The existence of a permanent underclass of low paid help that made this existence possible; 2. The postwar "traditional" existence was actually a very short period in history; 3. The "traditional" homemaker role was largely because people had no choice; and 4. The top marginal tax rate in the 1950s was 91%. The author is correct that the capitalists want us working so they can take our surplus labor value as profits. Additionally, if we have to work, even better. Coercion is a necessary and desirable condition for capitalism. However, fetishizing "traditional" values is a common Trojan horse for radicalizing people into fascism. Hitler sold himself as a moral crusader. He told German women their role was to create more Germans. German women would get medals from the state if they had enough children. The public had to be sold on the fear of "moral decay". Does that sound familiar? It should if you've been paying attention. This sort of thing has infected spaces inhabited by young men too. Julius Evola, the philosopher to Mussolini before graduating to the major leagues of Hitler, extols the virtues of traditional values and gender roles. He is a darling of the 4chan suburban latch key kids. The government doesn't need to subsidize homemakers specifically. We simply need to pay people enough so that 2 people don't need 5 jobs between them to make ends meet. As wealthy inequality worsens, population growth stagnates. South Korea is really the poster child for that now (~0.7 children per woman, the lowest of any nation). What we do now is subsidize corporations. Walmart employees are huge recipients of food stamps. Walmart has a grossannual profit of ~$150B. Why are they being subsidized by the government instead of, you know, just paying their workers a fair and living wage? All of these problems come down to economics, specifically capitalism. This is capitalism working as intended. I'm amazed how often I see pieces like this that recognize the problems created by capitalism without capitalism ever being blamed.