This is not a depiction of a village, this is what happens when the village no longer exists and everyone has to live in isolation from any social safety nets. Or to put it another way, Neoliberalism.
I don’t think I understand. Who is being nice in this picture? The manager for letting her employee work while they care for her daughter in a dangerous work environment prone to spills, slips, cuts, burns and other risks?
Don’t you think there should be a better solution?
Nah, in a village you’d see kids at work with parents sometimes too. Usually you’d have some kind of daycare situation, but sometimes that’s not an option.
I can totally see a village shop where the owner is there with a baby, and the kid kinda grows up in the shop.
We aren’t talking about rasing a kid in a literal village within a Neoliberal society. “It takes a village” is an idiom about how the entire community should help to properly raise a child.
The saying emphasizes that a child’s upbringing is a communal effort involving many different people and groups, from parents to teachers to neighbors and grandparents.
The whole idea underscores the belief that the collective involvement of a community is essential in achieving a certain goal or completing a task, like raising a kid.
Essentially, it’s a friendly reminder that asking for help with hard things is okay because many hands make light work.
This is not a depiction of a village, this is what happens when the village no longer exists and everyone has to live in isolation from any social safety nets. Or to put it another way, Neoliberalism.
I do think there is value in pointing out how even in the most horrid conditions humans have the capacity to be nice to each other
I don’t think I understand. Who is being nice in this picture? The manager for letting her employee work while they care for her daughter in a dangerous work environment prone to spills, slips, cuts, burns and other risks?
Don’t you think there should be a better solution?
Yes, but think of the shareholder value.
Wow you’re right. I’ll have 2 neoliberalisms please. Gonna max out those shareholder values 💪
Would you like to add genocide to that with just a few purchases from platforms owned by literal white supremacists?
Nah, in a village you’d see kids at work with parents sometimes too. Usually you’d have some kind of daycare situation, but sometimes that’s not an option.
I can totally see a village shop where the owner is there with a baby, and the kid kinda grows up in the shop.
The difference is that they’d own the shop tho…
We aren’t talking about rasing a kid in a literal village within a Neoliberal society. “It takes a village” is an idiom about how the entire community should help to properly raise a child.
The whole idea underscores the belief that the collective involvement of a community is essential in achieving a certain goal or completing a task, like raising a kid.
Essentially, it’s a friendly reminder that asking for help with hard things is okay because many hands make light work.
https://grammarist.com/idiom/it-takes-a-village/