Um-Care. How care work is revolutionizing the economy
Care work - taking care of housework, child rearing, nursing, friendships, social and global togetherness - is "systemically relevant" and should move to the center of economic theory and practice. The authors criticize an economic system that ignores this "unpaid sector" and an economy that still revolves around the question of what wealthy people can afford. They therefore demand that this way of thinking must change and take care work and nature as the starting point for a sustainable economy. After all, the issue is how eight billion people can live well together in the vulnerable habitat of the earth. Ecosystems are coming apart at the seams, on which future generations will depend for their very existence. The majority of people perform over twelve billion hours of unpaid care work every day - whereas in 2017, only eight people owned more than the poorer half of the world's population.
