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Free housing, free food, and a monthly allowance covers that, doesn’t it?
I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume you mean the housing, food and allowance provided by the breadwinner to the homemaker.
Theres a couple of problems with that. Number one, how tf do you both cut half the jobs and raise the wage by enough to double its present value? You’d have to be able to actually get rid of half the labor base and not have employers gobble up the money saved as profits.
Number two, how do you avoid the very real class distinctions involved in that arrangement in the past? To put a finer point on it, full time housewife was a descriptor reserved for the upper middle classes and above only.
Not least, but definitely third: how do you avoid, in a racist and misogynistic society, allowing labor and its benefits to become gendered and racialized?
What you said might seem like a fair trade for a specific breadwinner and homemaker pair (at a specific time, things change!), but it’s not a fix for a social problem.
A loving family distributing workload, responsibility, resources, and money is apparently anathema to you.
How is race even relevant here?
I promise you it’s not. Even in what I’m assuming is an idealized one income nuclear family that you’re alluding to, directly compensating the homemaker for the work required to reproduce that structure just gives the household more resources to distribute.
It also legitimizes the work of reproducing the socially necessary family structure without excluding homemakers from conversations of policy regarding workers rights.
Everyone wins.
I don’t think it’s very smart to exclude race from discussion of domestic labor in the western world especially America.