#5yrsago Now EVERYBODY hates the new EU #CopyrightDirective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/now-everybody-hates-new-eu-copyright-directive

#1yrago #CareInflation: The inflation no one wants to talk about https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/18/wages-for-housework/#low-wage-workers-vs-poor-consumers

#1yrago #EleanorJanega's "Once and Future Sex": The true, weird, horny history of medieval gender and sex https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/17/ren-faire/#going-medieval

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This is #CareInflation, and you don't reduce demand for it by hurting workers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/18/wages-for-housework/#low-wage-workers-vs-poor-consumers

The price of care labor has outpaced the CPI every year since *1978*. As the price of goes up, working-age adults are taken out of the workforce so they can care for their kids, parents, spouses, and other family members:

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-18-inflation-unfair-costs-of-care/

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When politicians jawbone about "inflation," they're talking about the inflation that matters to creditors. Debtors - the bottom 90% - have been burdened with three decades' worth of steadily mounting inflation that no one talks about. Yesterday, the *Prospect* ran Nancy Folbre's outstanding piece on #CareInflation - the skyrocketing costs of day-care, #NursingHomes, #eldercare, etc:

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-18-inflation-unfair-costs-of-care/

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#CareInflation has severe knock-on effects for the rest of the economy. When workers can't find someone to look after their kids, their elderly relatives, or a sick or disabled partner, they are often forced out of the workforce, or they give up good jobs and accept lower wages and worse working conditions so they can take the time to do care labor.

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