The Subject of the Monetisation of Children

The title of this entry should say it all because it makes it immediately clear that the subject at hand is essentially "child exploitation"... but the fact is that when this subject is discussed there isn't that same kind of clarity happening and so people don't seem to realize the seriousness of what they are actually weighing in on.

There are legitimate differences of opinion on this subject, which says a tremendous amount about society. Children should not be monetized. Period. Everyone already agrees on this. However, the truth is that it is not only happening, society regularly debates it using language that doesn't label it for what it is... child exploitation.

Thomas Sowell on Gender Pay Gap

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYQghjd4/ 

The above clip of Thomas Sowell reminds me of a comment made by Jordan Peterson that the reason why the concept of a gender pay gap exists is because society hasn't figured out a way to monetize motherhood and child rearing. Sowell essentially demonstrates that if scientific data on the subject is read properly, it agrees with Peterson... showing that women who never became wives or mothers actually earn more money than men in the same jobs.

My point, however, is that the discussion about this topic isn't looking deeply enough at the subject. Those who say there is an unfair pay gap between men and women are making a shallow argument not supported by science, but those who point out that shallowness aren't acknowledging that a serious underlying problem does actually exist... so the discussion just continues as a perpetual argument where each party is trying to prove their point and it never actually digs deeper into the nature of the problem.

In a capitalist system, things are only valued if they can be monetized. Motherhood, parenting and marriage are about ethics, and ethics are corrupted by Monetization. Trying to fit ethics inside a capitalist system is impossible. That is the problem. In my observation, no one in this discussion is addressing this.