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Sorry, no I don't believe I conveyed myself in that way, updoots seem to agree.
I do think we're in alignment here, but also I understand nuance is often lost over Internet posts so let me clarify my position. "Family values and housewives" as you put it being a great example:
Women having the opportunity to leave the home of their own volition and be in a career the same as a man? Awesome. Progress.
Women AND men alike, in a family unit, forced simultaneously into the career-style workforce or multiple garbage jobs because the family goes bust and destitute otherwise? Bullshit.
Programs for kids to safely socialize and learn as a community? Fantastic!
Overwhelmed daycares staffed by burned out underpaid care workers, costing half of everyone's salary, because otherwise the only alternative is literally child abandonment, thanks to everybody needing to leave the home and devote a majority of their time to wage labor? Capitalistic nightmare.
That's basically a systemic form of indentured servitude to pay ransom for one's own children. It isn't right.
Parents should be free to choose parenting their children over creating shareholder value without starving. Parenting is already a full time job, and outsourcing it entirely to someone else's employees every "business day" sounds like a great way to wreck a society's future adults.
Especially in the U.S when maternity leave is laughably short for many, and paternity leave is a fanciful myth from faraway lands, and those early years spent with one's family are CRITICAL for a child's early development.
So when I satirically said "parenting as a service" (mocking 'software as a service' / rent-seeking behavior), I wasn't referring to "Watch our kids and enrich them a little occasionally."
I literally meant "A paid service has to raise our children because we aren't rich enough to spend much time with them besides breakfast and bedtime."
That sounds pretty horrible to me.