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Two earners is a strategy to pick up slack, but it drives down pay over time. The only way to sustain a "one worker per household" system is to have some kind
by sliverstorm 12y ago
Two earners is a strategy to pick up slack, but it drives down pay over time.
The only way to sustain a "one worker per household" system is to have some kind of force preventing more than one worker per household- be it social, legal, or otherwise. Without that, some folks will try to get ahead, and we will wind up right back where we are.
In short, it just doesn't seem to be something we can have a mix of. Either everyone has one worker per household, or everyone has two (or more).
- sliverstorm 12y agoI also suspect one worker per household might well be the best long term choice! However I don't really know how to implement that effectively without sexism or some other discrimination. One of the upsides to the old gender roles is it enabled heavy specialization. Men studied business, women studied domestic work. Without those roles, you either have to gamble on one of the two studies, or learn both and in the process sacrifice specialization.