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You are mixing up having a monetary system and having a capitalist system, and I don't see how it relates to the topic.

You also said that capitalism is bad at measuring off balance sheet value creation, and then say a fundamental trend of capitalism is to take off balance value and make it explicit. Which is it and why do you think it's a problem?

Why does it matter if capitalism doesn't put a price on a mother raising her own child? You seem to imply that a better economic system should put a price on this activity. Why? Should someone be paying a parent or raising their own child, and who?

One aspect of capitalism is that an individuals get to choose what they value and pay for it. Why should I pay mother to raise her child without choice?

If for some reason I found value in her raising her child or mine, there is nothing in a capitalist system that stops me from setting up price and paying them to do it




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