David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
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And I think that's exactly how it often gets presented, especially from a feminist perspective, that caring for your own children is some sort of unpaid labor that has to be compensated for in some specific way beyond the compensation of what...
bringing life into this world, raising wonderful humans.
There's something screwy about that analysis that I actually think the modern trad movement is a reply against.
Whether they have all the answers, I'm certainly not sure of either.
But there's something that's just not right in the analysis that children are a burden and that if
woman chooses to stay at home with the kids, that that's some sort of failure mode of feminist ambition.
I think that's actually a complete dead end.
Now, depends on different people, different circumstances.
I can just speak to my life being married to a wonderful woman who have decided to
be home with the kids, at least at their early age, and taking on a lot of those responsibilities.
Now, it doesn't mean there isn't plenty of ways that I have to be part of that and have to chip in, but it's allowed me to continue to work the 40 hours a week that I've
Always worked.
But it's made the 40 hours more strict.
I have a schedule where I wake up, whatever, 6.30, and we have to get out of the door a little before 8.
I usually have to play at least one or two rounds of Fortnite with my youngest, sometimes middle child.
Then take the kids to school, get in, start work at, I don't know, 8.39.
Then work until 5, 5.30, sometimes 6 o'clock.
But then it's dinner.
And I have to be there for that.
And then I have to read to the kids.