Andii אַנדִֽי1d ago
''What about including [in GDP] the value of unpaid childcare, the value of charity and voluntary work, the value of looking after elderly relatives at home, or even the value of doing your own housework instead of paying someone to do it? All of these clearly create real value in the economy, but they're not included in GDP.''
And indeed why aren't we factoring out the false economies related to pollution etc?
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03/17/10-of-gdp-is-fiction/
#WagesForHousework #GDP #UKpolitics #economics
10% of GDP is fiction

Everyone is told that economic growth is the key to prosperity. But what if a significant part of GDP, the number politicians obsess about, is based on a transaction that never actually happens? Around 10% of UK GDP is made up of something called “imputed rent.” This is the imaginary rent homeowners...

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Show threadDouglas Edwards Jul 20, 2025
@KatyElphinstone This is one of many reasons why #UBI (unconditional #BasicIncome) is so important. So women won't have to make such choices. In fact, #UBI was a development from the feminist #WagesForHousework concept.
Roberto von ArchimboldiOct 19, 2024

I sometimes think about the Ludlow and Lonmin miners. Amoung the demands that they were killed fighting for a century and a half apart was the right to be paid for safety work on the mine.

It occurred to me this morning that much feminised labour is safety work. What else is care work and cleaning (reproductive labour, as the cool kids say)? It is badly paid and forced on women precisely because the owners of capital outsource risk to workers. Labour, and the people who do it, are expendable and fungible to capital and the people who own it.

#WagesForHousework

[UNC] Alpha PandaJun 19, 2024
yes, even mommy! #wagesforhousework
Elfriede HarthJun 17, 2024

Rereading the #WagesforHousework Campaign: Feminist #Degrowth Reflections on #SocialReproduction, #Commons, and a #CareIncome
#LaborIncome as a path to women's #emancipation?
#UniversalBasicIncome?

https://bit.ly/3z5iOIB

Rereading the Wages for Housework Campaign: Feminist Degrowth Reflections on Social Reproduction, Commons, and a Care Income | Hypatia | Cambridge Core

Rereading the Wages for Housework Campaign: Feminist Degrowth Reflections on Social Reproduction, Commons, and a Care Income

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[UNC] Alpha PandaJan 13, 2023
@sunflower #WagesForHousework
[UNC] Alpha PandaAug 10, 2020
sent all the women in my life this excellent Article on #wagesforhousework you should read it too https://cherwell.org/2020/08/09/wages-against-housework-more-smiles-more-money/
Wages Against Housework: "More smiles? More money." - Cherwell

“More smiles? More money.” This was the rallying cry of women around the world in the 1970s. They were adamant that women everywhere should be paid for not only their relentless housework but also the constant and equally gruelling emotional labour they were forced to perform every day. Women, they protested, were unfairly made to …

Cherwell
[UNC] Alpha PandaAug 9, 2020
this account 100% supports #wagesforhousework https://cherwell.org/2020/08/09/wages-against-housework-more-smiles-more-money/
Wages Against Housework: "More smiles? More money." - Cherwell

“More smiles? More money.” This was the rallying cry of women around the world in the 1970s. They were adamant that women everywhere should be paid for not only their relentless housework but also the constant and equally gruelling emotional labour they were forced to perform every day. Women, they protested, were unfairly made to …

Cherwell