So, I have a certain amount of argh about this. It's great that this person is realizing there is a social justice issue here, but this is not a Covid problem, merely an already raging fire Covid threw gasoline on. And I feel this person's newcomer take on it is leading them down some counterproductive paths. Decommodification of care work is how we got in this situation to begin with: the treatment of "women's work" as infinite and uncompensated made it invisible and unreckoned. When we actually have to pay people what they're worth to do it, we, as a society and as individuals, get sticker shock. Decommodification is just worker exploitation.
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