Status Updates From The Problem with Work: Femi...

such an interesting premise and difficult line to parse: shifting the value from traditional paid labor within a feminist lens so that paid labor doesn't minimize the role of a feminized person to that of the homemaker (whose work is also deserving of financial recompense). at this point, it seems that patriarchal capitalism will never allow for a restructuring that is truly functional and equitable.

we won!!!!!! 🇧🇷🥳 time to get back to my book

all these days and I've only just finished the introduction 🤡🤡🤡 what the fuck is wrong with meeeeeee

Dreams of individual accomplishment and desires to contribute to the common good become firmly attached to waged work, where they can be hijacked to rather different ends: to produce neither individual riches nor social wealth, but privately appropriated surplus value.

"That individuals should work is fundamental to the basic social contract; (...) working is part of what is supposed to transform subjects into the independent individuals of the liberal imaginary, and (...) is treated as a basic obligation of citizenship. (The fact that the economy's health is dependent on a permanent margin of unemployment is only one of the more notorious problems with this convention.)"