> Nevermind that society dictates everyone must work to survive by default.

What is the alternative ?

A little over 100 years ago women were only 20% of the labor force. [1] Which is to say, most women did not participate in wage employment.

Now they're ~47%. Which is great! But it also hints that society doesn't need most of the labor for the system to still function.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/about/history

	▲	pjc50 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Rather like subsistence farming, everyone got out of housework as soon as possible and into a far less onerous office.
	▲	dukeyukey 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		"Work" does not exclusively mean "work full time for a wage".
	▲	blueflow 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		yeah but carrying and raising kids?

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burnt-resistor 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You appear to be asking a trick question, disingenuously.

There's a vast continuum between grossly-unequal homeless everywhere like many corrupt, third-world countries with masked, paramilitary disappearance squads and a large, happy middle-class paid well that can afford to buy things, take vacations, and enjoy life where corruption is lesser.

	▲	sejje 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The disappearing middle class in America is becoming the upper class.