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[astrange]

> And high-productivity is certainly no guarantee of high wages. E.g. mothers arguably produce everything, but that's not a waged job at all.

Productivity means work over time. Being a mom is low productivity because you can (mostly) only do one at a time.

[rhelz → astrange]

Productivity is not just work over time--its how much value you produce per unit of time. Mothers produce all value. Without them, nothing would have any value at all.