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Re:My Family’s Slave by canoebuilder on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @02:48AM (#14356177)
An argument could be made that the entire capitalist system is built upon uncompensated labor.

This is kind of an odd damning of capitalism, because no matter how we organize society, there is going to continue to be mothering so long as our species is to survive. And whatever societal system we may have, that society is going to be built in large part by mothering.

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Re:My Family’s Slave by Broken_Hippo on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @06:20AM (#14357094)
Yes, be we can do different solutions.

I'd also like to point out that the statement would not only include mothers, but children and slaves of different sorts. The current equivalent is likely things like community service, prison labor, homeless working in stores to stay in shelters, and charities - at least in the US.

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