Dividing work in a family not about what people like, or about what’s equal, it’s about what works
To paraphrase Lenin, “Works for whom? To achieve what?” Cui prodest in any particular social arrangement? My personal go-to default hypothesis is that it’s always the side that can harness greater bargaining power through having more overall control of resources. Apply to workplace/labor relations, families, tribal clashes etc.
(Citation! Citation! A very favourable review—by Satoshi Kanazawa of all people—of a book on the game-theoretical causes and consequences of power inequalities.)
To paraphrase Lenin, “Works for whom? To achieve what?”
Society is not a zero sum game. Would you really prefer a situation where, to paraphrase Stalin, “the shortage is distributed equally among the peasants”?
To paraphrase Lenin, “Works for whom? To achieve what?” Cui prodest in any particular social arrangement? My personal go-to default hypothesis is that it’s always the side that can harness greater bargaining power through having more overall control of resources. Apply to workplace/labor relations, families, tribal clashes etc.
(Citation! Citation! A very favourable review—by Satoshi Kanazawa of all people—of a book on the game-theoretical causes and consequences of power inequalities.)
Society is not a zero sum game. Would you really prefer a situation where, to paraphrase Stalin, “the shortage is distributed equally among the peasants”?