Re: Armenian lesbians/gays
I don't think I agree here. By the same logic, should we do away with automation? Automation has certainly reduced the need for human labor.
You forget that women that work also consume. The whole thing just becomes a much larger market. They can own property, invest, and produce as well. You make it sound like women entered the workforce and took chunk out of a static job market where in reality the entire economy just grew and grew. You have clothing and makeup industries that thrive entirely on women for example.
In the old Amish lifestyles ... yah the women stayed home and they ate enough to stay alive and did the house work. But they also didn't spend on anything. They dididn't buy cars and luxuries. They did the slave work which basically meant you were getting a lot of work for "free" by exploiting a large segment of the population. Now that you can't exploit them anymore, it is actually another large job segment: Household cleaning, child care, cooking, shopping etc So no, I definitely don't agree that the women took jobs from men and reduced the big pie available to men. I would argue they added a lot more pie to the mix.
Originally posted by yerazhishda
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You forget that women that work also consume. The whole thing just becomes a much larger market. They can own property, invest, and produce as well. You make it sound like women entered the workforce and took chunk out of a static job market where in reality the entire economy just grew and grew. You have clothing and makeup industries that thrive entirely on women for example.
In the old Amish lifestyles ... yah the women stayed home and they ate enough to stay alive and did the house work. But they also didn't spend on anything. They dididn't buy cars and luxuries. They did the slave work which basically meant you were getting a lot of work for "free" by exploiting a large segment of the population. Now that you can't exploit them anymore, it is actually another large job segment: Household cleaning, child care, cooking, shopping etc So no, I definitely don't agree that the women took jobs from men and reduced the big pie available to men. I would argue they added a lot more pie to the mix.
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