@Jaredkotter Going to Home Depot as a construction worker to F off for 45 mins is one of the great joys of working the ktr hourly wage. Get your private equity efficiency out of here.
We invented the washing machine, the dryer, the dishwasher, the microwave, frozen dinners, online grocery, the robot vacuum, and DoorDash. The married household with young kids spends more total hours on chores and childcare today than it did in 1965.
Dads went from under 10 hours a week to 28.7, the 300% everyone is quoting. Moms went from the high 40s to 42.5, a slide of five or six. Stack the two and the household total rises. A full century of labor-saving invention, and the modern family with toddlers logs more unpaid hours at home than the family that did the laundry by hand.
Here is the part that should stop you. Every one of those machines did its job. Core housework genuinely collapsed. Mothers do roughly half the cooking and cleaning they did in the 1960s. The dishwasher worked. The dryer worked. The hours got freed.
Then the culture spent them. The time the appliances saved flowed straight back into the children. This is the same law that governs every efficiency gain modern life has produced. Faster email bought us more email. Automation at home bought us a higher bar for what a parent owes a kid.
Watch what childcare even means now versus then. In 1965 a kid got sent outside until dinner. Supervision was loose, the neighborhood raised half of them, and a parent hovering every waking hour would have looked unwell. Today the job is continuous. Driving to practice, sitting through homework, managing screens, booking the enrichment, never leaving a small child unwatched. The one activity that exploded is the one no machine will ever touch. You cannot DoorDash attention.
So pull back and the chart stops being about fathers. It is a portrait of a species that refuses to bank its own productivity. Every tool we built to do less at home, we spent on doing more for the kids. The washing machine freed the afternoon. We handed the afternoon to the children and quietly renamed the old, looser way neglect.
We automated the housework and poured every saved minute into the one job we decided can never be done well enough.
@ArlingtonDES You guys have to do something about the trash pick up. My entire street has full trash cans and should have been picked up Wednesday. Ticket number is 272054.
Contractor lied and closed it out…I’ve called twice
@ArlingtonVA You guys have to fo something about the trash pick up. My entire street has full trash cans and should have been picked up Wednesday. Ticket number is 272054.
Contractor lied and closed it out…I’ve called twice
@BonifaceOption@thomasbsauer Maga cat nip is annoying, when you make hysterical claims it makes you look stupid
Per grok-
It really happened in the sense of ongoing ballot counting and shifts, but the specific “24,000 ballots with exactly zero for Pratt” claim appears unverified/exaggerated.
@ClayTravis Clay - the stocks run up is backed by the assumption that AI will maintain outsized “productivity” while completely dismantling the self-esteem and employment of the American white collar work force.
AI tokens becoming unaffordable is the only thing positive rn