I have to always mop when it snows. And when i mow the lawn. So there is a sweet spot when there is no snow and no lawn mowing where i only mop once a week!
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This is why polyamory took off
I know it's a joke, but please hear me out... Just get roommates to share chores with.
The majority of people out there are not cut out to be poly.
This is why polygamy took off.
The difference? I personally haven't had any good experiences with any of these words
Polygamy = man has many wives
Polyamory = person has many partners
As i understand it, it’s all about how much misogyny is at play
I honestly see the appeal of it
Doesn't the amount of dishes just skyrocket tho
Yeah but that's why you get a partner who is good at dishes and doesn't mind doing them if you vacuum. You just happen to be better a vacuuming. It's the same idea that makes trading with other countries better than doing everything local.
I don't mind doing dishes, as long as those end up in the sink or colse to it. Don't make me clean those up across the home.
One of the reasons it is important to find a decently paying part-time job: so you can have enough time for these things.
A decently paying part-time job is so rare that it’s basically an oxymoron
No, that's just a high paying skilled job that does part time. Medical jobs are plentiful or specialty things.
Fair, but at part time hours I could never afford cost-of living. My partner and I are both full-time skilled healthcare workers and find that the increases in cost of living are putting a squeeze on our monthly budget, which often leaves me wondering how the rest of the world manages.
Pilots are the peak version of this
I'm a corporate goober, fully institutionalized. I know no other life.
The notion of part time seems so absurd. I'm not saying it is wrong or bad, but just so puzzling, like a concrete life preserver.
I would love to work part time, but nobody would hire a part time cybersecurity leader. The effort it would take to make that institutional change to job sharing would be tremendous. It would just be easier to hire someone else for a little more money.
Actually I know some people …. Depending on what you do for cybersecurity. There’s a good market for contractors to do security audits and pen testing - as a contractor you potentially have time off between gigs and can choose how much you work (assuming you can pull in the contracts)
Imagine being the guy …. The next big supply chain attack, the business is on the line, and they call you. The cybersecurity expert: your word is god’s word, no budget too big when the company is on the line
Oh no they don't! If they want to force me to work with guns, I'm fine with that.
They will have a few grunts less.
Start working on a cruise ship where you don't need a house.
Remember housework used to be considered a job that needed a full time adult to attend to
Then the other adult fed everyone, and there was nothing left for fun or travel or higher education or personal betterment other than an hour of church one day a week.
Fantasizing about the fulfillment of hard work without the expectation of actually doing hard manual labor is an affliction of wealthy Westerners.
Maybe I dream of days when that was possible because me and my spouse work all fucking week and if we had a kid it would basically take half our income to have our kid raised by fucking strangers. Or one of us stays home for a few years until the kid is in school also costing us half our income and placing us all into abject poverty because one average wage cannot sustain a household in any semblance of comfort.
But yeah fuck me for wanting the life I literally saw my grandparents have on one income. My grandfather didn't even finish high-school and spent his whole life doing manual labor. They weren't rich, and they struggled, but they made it. If we tried to live the way they did on 1 income we'd be fucking homeless.
You're longing for a life one generation enjoyed in their prime. It was a flash in time. It didn't even last their entire lives, many people in that age group are already in a precarious situation financially, unless they've managed to pass away before 2007. You're fantasizing about a specific economic climate that also largely relied on Jim Crow policies to inequitably grow resources for white people only.
A huge majority of humans ever to have lived, across all of our history as a species, suffered through subsistence farming, which you can go and experience right now today. It sucks. It ruins your body. It's a curse you can't help but pass along to your children unless they are smart enough to be sent away to school in a city.
My grandparents got married in the 70s my dude so maybe tone down the Jim Crow stuff before getting all the facts.
I'll never feel guilty for wanting what previous generations had when we are currently expirencing growing wealth inequality and seeing billionaires flaunting their wealth. It's a guided age and if we take that excess back we can all live better. Stop defending the rich
We have the resources, we have the technology, and we allow it to be used for the 1%
My child, maybe let's both take a beat to understand that we're a generation apart. I'm likely as old as your parents; my grandfather fought in WWII. My parents we're married in the 70s.
I also have a masters degree in economic policy, so maybe understand, sweet child, that you have very impractical, rose-tinted glasses for some Boomer era that still relied on a boatload of racism, and was entirely unsustainable, filled with poison, and centered on profits above people. It's a universe away from what you actually want.
I beg you to learn about economic history before you yearn for anything of the past. The future needs to be made new for a modern era, not stocked together from nostalgia.
I'm going to hope this is a cultural difference, and you are roughly my parents age. However, imagining a stranger my parent's age calling me, a grown ass man with a mortgage and everything, "child" or "sweet child" is just weird. Respectfully you'd need to be at least 20 years older for that to be comfortable to me, or working at a waffle house.
Anyway we are funneling more and more wealth to the top. Reclaim that and we can all live just like my grandparents and your parents. Maybe even a bit better.
And don't worry I'm quite familiar with history. Built a career out of it myself. I just see significantly larger causes for income inequality than racial discrimination and race based exploitation alone explains.
Yes western nations even today extract wealth from poorer nations. Consumers do benefit by getting "goods". This exhange benefits the wealthy more than the consumer. I'd gladly give up cheap goods like phones or cars for affordable commodities like food, shelter, and healthcare.
I don't yearn for suburbia, I yearn to be able to live. To have a family. To not worry day to day what horrible shit my country will do only to benefit the rich.
The cultural difference seems to be you seem to take everything literally. It's a touch of absurdist sarcasm that is a play on the GOT phrase "my sweet summer child." Did you really not get that?
Y'all gotta lighten up just a bit or this shit'll kill you before you ever affect it.
Ah yes, Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, partying, and theatre, is propaganda created by an affliction of wealthy Westerners.
You act like storytellers, festivals, sports, songs, etc. did not exist before the 1950s.
Tell me more about how rural farmers, slaves and peasant villagers went to the theater in ancient Greece.
https://ajaonline.org/book-review/4169/
Or have you just defended wealthy land owners?
And yes, I understand how festivals and holidays work in subsistence farming comminuties. I've lived in one for years. Doesn't make the work any less hard.
Yes, back in the day when clothes were washed by vigorously rubbing them against a washboard, and then one-by-one cranking them through a wringer / mangle to dry them. Rugs were cleaned by taking them outside, hanging them on a line, and beating them with a carpet beater. Clothes were expensive, so any time they were damaged it was up to the wife to sew and mend them, and often she'd be sewing new ones too. Bread wasn't something you bought at the supermarket, it was something you made at home using basic ingredients like flour and water. Eggs came from a backyard chicken coop, and the wife had to feed the chickens too. And so on, and so on....
Restaurants and bakeries have existed for thousands of years. There was plenty of work a household had to do on their own, but plenty has also always been shared by the community at large. As the saying goes, "it takes a village to raise a child."
There were also generally more people in a household historically. And not just children who would be expected to help with the daily chores, but also grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces, etc. The nuclear family is a very recent and largely Western concept born during the 150 years or so.
The 1950s and 60s had many of our modern conveniences and yet the standard was for 1 adult to handle the household
The 1950s are a really atypical time in history. The US was the victor in a world war, and the only country whose infrastructure didn't get absolutely smashed. Workers still had labour protections won during the great depression. And, full electrification with easily available electrical appliances was brand new.
Before that the standard was hired help.
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I'm clearly not talking about Victorian Estates
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