The incredibly harmful subtext of Kim Kardashian's 'advice' to women
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In one paragraph the writer claims that women are the victims of being “overworked”, “underpaid”, “mental illness”, “a global pandemic” and “threat of nuclear war”. The complete dismissal of meritocracy because “women work hard too”.
Nagging isn't a paying job.
A major issue that people like this always miss is that it's not working super hard that gets you anywhere. It's having some sort of unique-ish value to society. The US is importing hundreds of thousands of people a year who are perfectly happy to do menial, zero-skill labor 80 hours a day for minimum wage. You being willing to do the same doesn't make you valuable, it makes you a replaceable part.
Women - who are objectively not overworked by the way - are underpaid because they overwhelmingly go into fields that are either extremely easy or have no value to anyone. None of them want to do the hard jobs that nobody wants to do. There are precious few female truckers, oil riggers, linemen, or plumbers. All of those jobs are well-paying, but only men do them. You can't turn your nose up at jobs that are hard and then get mad that you're not being paid very much to do something easy.
Not even unique skills required, just valuable skills. Although you are close to the truth - labor follows demand-price like any other commodity. Get in-demand skills, get paid.
Working hard is a meme. Working hard is a sure way to stay poor. Get a skill that is in demand and make money. When people say "work smart" this is what they are trying to say, they just do not know economics.
Her comment was stupid and bad, but she's a woman so shrug, why is anyone listening?