Why are men so angry about the growth of the care economy?

Prior to the government’s round table, it was difficult to act for people blaming the maintenance economy to weaken our performance.

A year ago, Danielle Wood from the Productivity Commission induced As the maintenance economy expands, “In general, you need to work harder and work more elsewhere”. E61 Institute, operated by Woods’ predecessor Michael Brennan, pointed out Last October, the higher wage increase in the maintenance economy was removed from other industries. Then Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor attacked the expansion of what Labour called the “so -called care economy .. Damage efficiency. Luci Ellis At Westpac He stated that the expansion of the maintenance economy would harm productivity and leave us in the “maintenance economy slow lane”. Lately, Australia guilty Our weak productivity performance in government expenditures for “low productivity efforts such as maintenance economy.

It is true that care for patients, elderly, disabled people or children is less appropriate than other areas of the economy for an increase in productivity. And we actually organize care standards – staff: child rates in child care, powers for nurses in elderly care – so More Labor intense. If you are not a childless economist who thinks they will never get older, this is a good thing.

And he have to have He grew faster than the rest of the economy – not only under labor, but in the last decade. Australian Statistics Office increased by 24% since 2015, Australian labor, but the maintenance sector increased by 61%. Therefore, inevitably, our average productivity performance has been affected-E61 can be attributed to the growth of the maintenance economy between our current productivity performance and our performance until the mid-2000s.

All comments do not use the efficiency lens. Economist Conrad Liveris Western Australia Discussed in June This “elderly care, child care, disability support is not only service but infrastructure. They make everyone work. But we treat them as a cost center instead of productivity engine.” A good sum of distorted thought about the care economy.

The real house of the attacks on the maintenance economy Australia Financial ReviewWhich He made a war on him for months. And there is no tactic under them. Last December AFR dead He is happy to address a report McKinsey blames Australia because it is now an economic “problematic child”. Probably the solution of McKinsey An opioid epidemic caused by the United States.

And last week AFR Coated with a report From the Center of Independent Studies on Government Expenditures by Robert Carling. Carling’s newspaper – In addition to a strange claim that half of the voters trust the government for their income. Australia has witnessed a major increase in government expenditures in recent years and especially since its spandem. However, while Carling discussed the maintenance economy, he took care not to skip the major increase in ongoing defense expenditures or the increasing increase in investment in the infrastructure.

On the contrary, AFRThe account, which was inevitably seized in false things about people who trust the government, barely talked about defense expenditures and never mentioned the infrastructure expenditures. Instead, he is obsessed with “a major increase in disability support, elderly care and child care”.

. AFRThe problem with the maintenance economy is less suitable for productivity increase, not economic orthodoxy, but about partisanship: Australia And like Angus Taylor, AFR Care economy is a problem because labor did not only invest in it, but also proud of its investment. Maintenance economy is a target due to labor – despite the fact that it really grows faster than Anthony Albania under Scott Morrison. The language is echoed by online right -wingers who equalize the maintenance economy on Twitter with “socialism ve, and the market sector growth is“ crowded ”.

Most of these critics on maintenance economy, contrary to the fact that about three quarters of the workers in the maintenance economy were women, and the growth of the care economy, since 2015, had increased 30.5% for men in Australia compared to 20.1% for men.

At that time, there is an opinion that the care or service industry works, which are more likely to be a female, are not real work – whether they are making coffee or hairdressing or having care for a walking child; they are not economic productive It is the same way to make a widget in a factory or to make stocks behind a screen or build a house. And this view is definitely not limited to the logic behind Labor’s future in Australia.

But here there is something deeper, more long-term-something that reveals the hypocrisy of this hatred of the main economy.

One reason – the only reason in no way – is that the federal government is now spending more than one quarter of GDP under Whitlam less than 19% of GDP. to do Especially in compassion (and education) sectors much more. One of the biggest stories of how the Australian government has changed in the last half century is the expansion of maintenance services financed by the government, the obligation to receive and ensure the payment of the elderly, the elderly, the preschool and the people and the obligation to shift them to the government.

This maintenance work was always carried out regardless of whether the governments were financed or not. Finance only brought under the investigation of budget documents and economists. In its special form, it was done by almost always women. The mothers stayed at home and looked at the children and looked at children with disabilities as they grew up. His daughters always looked at the old parents. Spouses often cared about aging and sick husbands that predicted them.

Now, much more of this study is carried out by provider financed by the government for all kinds of reasons. As a society, even people who despise Medicare like the liberals of the Howard period have noticed the need for a health safety network to accept it. After realizing that we were going to run out of workers, we started to worry about the obstacles for women’s labor force participation, so we subsidized child care. The politicians took action with the endless stories of weakly old care. As a civilized society, we have decided that we need to give quality aid to people with disabilities.

In the 1970s, a small number of male economists or commentators burned the efficiency of the care business when women were expected to do so or reflected how to make it more efficient. But first of all, they were men who benefited from him. They can follow careers without child care responsibilities. Knowing that their spouses and girls will probably look at them, they can turn into illness or independence. No one talked about the “care economy, because because women care is not valuable by male economists or not even taken into account.

For decades, assumptions may have changed, but since the Fair Business Commission has resulted in a set of decisions in the last three years, such studies are still worthless: it has found that care workers are not correctly valued due to gender -based assumptions.

But now it is the target of Kızılgan men who have been dismissed as a kind of left plan to crowded the private sector, not as a real part of the economy.

For a solution, press this mafia and come with empty hand. There are three options: we either give less importance – literally, governments are delivering more of the maintenance economy to the private sector or we finance it to the public. It is unlikely that anyone who follows the continuous news of the collapse of numerous abuse scandals in child care or the collapse of Northern Beaches Hospital in NSW or by NDIS by special providers cannot support privatization with enthusiasm. This leaves less care. Reduce child care financing and health financing and allow elderly care standards to shift and allow the disabled to return to their families, if any.

The question is that if they get sick or if they are disabled, who will take care of all these male commentators? Who will care about their children? Who will be the nurses of them in their points? Somewhere a woman will do that, right?