Darby Saxbe

It's like alloparenting, which is cooperative breeding, like we are all collectively raising kids.

Like most humans were subsistence farmers who were just growing what they ate.

Mom, dad, and kids are all working together, right?

Again, like moms are working.

Kids are working too.

Everybody's working together at home.

And then once you industrialize, you have this separate domain, which is the workplace, where someone has to physically go out and earn money.

Interestingly, the first factory workers were women, like the mill girls, like the Lowell textile mills in Massachusetts.

Women were considered better factory workers because they were more expendable.

They weren't needed at home on the farm because they weren't working as hard as the men.

So they went to factories.

That sucked for them because the factories were exploitative and had bad conditions.

And then ultimately, like unionization happened, wages rose, men started being the ones that worked outside the home.

And so we kind of did this weird social experiment where like work became men's thing and home became women's thing.

Yeah.

And women were the primary caregivers of kids.

But I think like you hear all this talk about how that's the natural order of things with neo-traditional gender roles, trad wives, all of that.

Yeah.

And it's like, this is like 150 year blip.

Woof.