Was being a 'housewife' the first skilled trade that was effectively destroyed via automation? It seems that the rise of affordable household appliances (laundry, dishwasher, vacuum cleaner, even central heating) as well as prepared foods took what was once an honorable trade with associated skill sets, and made it obsolete. Whereas just a few decades back, a housewife might have taken pride in being a skilled seamstress capable of sewing and mending and patching and whatnot, the rise of globalized manufacturing drove down prices by herding chinks into sweatshops and making them produce garbage that's so cheap it's not even worth fixing if it gets damaged. Boom--that's the destruction of a traditional skill set that a woman could have taken pride in mastering. And that's just one example--the various convenient machines in your kitchen make it so that a meal can be prepared in a fraction of the time it once was, processed foods and refrigerators make it so that you no longer need to make a daily trip to the market, etc.
My point in bringing this up, is that, Jews aside (and they've certainly played a role), am I wrong in thibking that capitalism is responsible in part for the rise of feminism and the collapse of the family? That capitalism automated the housewife role, which was a respectable, skilled trade, and made it so that any thot could run a household? If I were a woman of quality, I would be very dissatisfied as a homemaker, especially once the kids turn 6 and go to school, simply because it doesn't earn one respect anymore. And one of the reasons housewives don't receive respect is because it actually is ridiculously easy nowadays; you press the button on the dishwasher, press the button on the laundry machine, and press the button on the microwave to heat up some plastic quasi-food.
Am I wrong? Should we destroy capitalism bros?
