The Pied Piper

Good for you. Nowadays we have the choice unlike our mothers and grandmothers. I bet your hubby thinks you do more "icky" things than he does LOL

I'm not quite as old as Hasbeen (praise the Gods of Good Music) but growing up in the sixties and seventies was pretty good. The vast majority of kids my age lived in one breadwinner homes, and that breadwinner only worked 40-45 hours a week. Sure, mum stayed home and did the -unpaid- housework, but she still found time for tennis a couple of times a week, and we had wonderful gardens.
Now, most families have 2 breadwinners working 80-100 hours a week. The simple truth is, wages haven't kept up with inflation over the past 40 years. This demonstrates empirically that it hasn't been wage rises causing inflation, but simply too much money in the system.
And the bulk of that money has lodged in the top end of town.
Where in the 70's top CEO's were getting 10-30 times more than the median wage, now it's more like 1000 times.
And because of all that money, the purchasing power of everyone's dollars, rich or poor, is that much less, so we have to work harder and longer, despite all the labour saving gadgets we've developed.
We work, to make rich mongrels richer.

Mikk: “Good for you. Nowadays we have the choice unlike our mothers and grandmothers. I bet your hubby thinks you do more "icky" things than he does LOL”

Yeah I guess so – icky is probably in the eye of the beholder. Hey I listened to a few hours of youtube last night including “I am woman” – someone better do a remake. My mum worked and for me I just cannot imagine getting up and putting on high heels. Generally I wake up and take them off.[smirk]

Grim: “We work, to make rich mongrels richer.”

This world is going strangely sideways the more I think about it Grim. The working people I know have big shopping lists with “want” written at the top. Me too though, I have several lists.

I remember holidays were about going to do something fun where now they seem to be about exhausted people trying to chill.

Kids in pre-school and day-care to such an extent mums are looked on as disadvantaging their children if they don’t shove them in one to “socialize” oh and the best one I heard recently “build immunity”. Wouldn’t it be cheaper for the tax payer to get random people to sneeze on your kid in the street?

It would have to be the right people doing the sneezing, PP.
How long at TAFE do you think, to become a fully qualified immuniser?
Then you'd have to have police checks and child safety checks (don't sneeze too close, and definitely no touching), carry an ID tag (registered sneezer) pay for a license...

Grim:”It would have to be the right people doing the sneezing, PP.
How long at TAFE do you think, to become a fully qualified immuniser?
Then you'd have to have police checks and child safety checks (don't sneeze too close, and definitely no touching), carry an ID tag (registered sneezer) pay for a license...”

Oh and you’d have to tested for all the nasty diseases and probably not allowed to sneeze on anyone if you’ve had a tattoo in the last 12 months. Probably do regular refresher courses. Why is everything so complicated?

And of course time consuming.

Now and again there comes an insistence from DoCS that a foster child goes to pre-school. This I don’t understand given the socializing and communicable disease they have the full benefit of in my home. My time costs the taxpayer zero while day-care/pre-school placements are subsidized up to 100% in some cases.

So while some people may feel “time rich” they are certainly paying for others peoples and departments decisions to use up unnecessary and expensive time.