• flandish@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what labor is, especially in regards to this picture. A) this is an american picture, it’s therefore unique to America. B) the child is laboring for someone’s profit. This is, sure, part of feudalism, but the system under which the picture is taken is capitalism.

    Do you also think the kid is pushing out a baby because they are “laboring”?

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      3 days ago

      “Domestic labour” is a term that refutes the point you’re trying to make. Labour just means effort, there’s no implicit connection to profit. In fact women’s labour has traditionally been unpaid forever, but it’s still work.