CRACKING THE FOUNDATIONAL MYTHS: INDEPENDENCE, AUTONOMY, AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY MARTHA ALBERTSON FINEMAN* - wcl.american.edu

CRACKING THE FOUNDATIONAL MYTHS: INDEPENDENCE, AUTONOMY, AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY MARTHA ALBERTSON FINEMAN* - wcl.american.edu

Caretaking labor provides the citizens, the workers, the voters, the consumers, the students, and others who populate society and its institutions. The uncompensated labor of caretakers is an unrecognized subsidy, not only to the individuals who directly receive it, but more significantly, to the entire society

... "derivative dependency"... The assignment of responsibility for the burdens of dependency to the family in the first instance, and within the family to women, operates in an unjust manner because this arrangement has significant negative material consequences for the caretaker... those who care for others are themselves dependent on resources in order to undertake that care. Caretakers have a need for monetary or material resources. They also need recourse to institutional supports and accommodation, a need for structural arrangements that facilitate caretaking.

... in today's world, independence and self-sufficiency require a minimal amount of social resources (structural and monetary), and the amount required increases when one has responsibility for the care of others.

... 4) Shouldn't the richest country in the history of the world have a family policy that goes beyond marriage as the solution for dependency?

... 6) Is it fair that the market and the state (which are totally dependent on caretaking labor and in no way self-sufficient or independent from caretaking) escape responsibility for dependency and continue to be freeloaders (or free riders) on the backs of caretakers and families?

... Independence is gained when an individual has the basic resources that enable her or him to act consistent with the tasks and expectations imposed by the society.

КОМЕНТАР:

Хуманизмът не е присъща характеристика на капитализма, а човешките права вече не са актуални след рухването на съветския противник. Така че не може да се очаква да бъде придавана чак толкова голяма стойност/ценност на човешките същества, респективно зависимите деца, възастни, инвалиди и пр. Парата/печалбата, интереса, властта... Всичко има пазарна стойност, а човекът не е дефицитен, има го в изобилие и се умножава, изчерпва важни човешкии ресурси... Каква би била другата мотивацията на обществото да поема, перефразирам, "своята отговорност за зависимите и дериватно зависимите", респективно зависимости?