> and that's the systemic sexism--the systemic choices about what should, and what doesn't need, to be paid for.
Who is it you think ought to be paying for childcare? It's clear who pays for wage labor. The employer pays for it, because they value it.
> why don't we instead have a society where all childcare is paid labor and we just "pay ourselves" for other self-benefitting labor (growing food, for example)?
The answer to this question is "the entire history of economics and every lesson ever learned about how to structure effective civilizations for the entire history of humanity". I'm not really sure how else to respond to that.
Who is it you think ought to be paying for childcare? It's clear who pays for wage labor. The employer pays for it, because they value it.
> why don't we instead have a society where all childcare is paid labor and we just "pay ourselves" for other self-benefitting labor (growing food, for example)?
The answer to this question is "the entire history of economics and every lesson ever learned about how to structure effective civilizations for the entire history of humanity". I'm not really sure how else to respond to that.