![]() It insists that if women are paid less, then that's because their labor is worthless. ![]() Such a point of view disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning, and cooking. Nevertheless, the economic man has dominated our understanding of modern-day capitalism, with a focus on self-interest and the exclusion of all other motivations. It's an ironic point of view coming from a bachelor who lived with his mother for most of his life - a woman who cooked his dinner every night. He argued that the baker and butcher didn't give bread and meat out of the goodness of their hearts. ![]() When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated by self-interest, he used the example of the baker and the butcher as he laid the foundations for the “economic man”. How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. ![]()
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