IMO, it would be far better to reduce the workforce, let wages escalate. Let one adult stay home raising the children. OK, you can be our ambassador to uppity women on the subject of why they should exit the labor force. They should do this to drive up wages so that a husband could once again support a family with a single job. Then the women get married and have lots of babies, and we don't need the immigrants. Hey, I like it. It could work. Good luck, ambassador. |
The hard sell isn't getting women to stay home, because some families would elect to keep the father home if the wife had the better job and they came to this arrangement.
The hard sell would be convincing women to have five to seven children again.
It may require having televisions that only worked 12 hours per day. Now that would probably be the toughest sell of all.
Hey, I realize this would be problematic. I also realize that our kids would be a lot better off, and our society in general probably would be too.
Post child rearing years, both parents could opt to enter the work force.
I think most people would look at this and think what a problematic suggestion it was. I look at what we're doing rather than this, and consider that very problematic.
Oh well...