But I think what squares the circle is that the second statement is actually describing societies with more developed capitalism, and that the seeming extra prosperity has come from cannibalizing social reproduction in pursuit of more intensive labor productivity. It’s how you can get a society where there is relative material abundance, but no spare time or cash to raise your kids.

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this is the conclusion Marxist feminists were coming to in the 70s and 80s while studying the capitalization of reproductive labor