What happens when caregiving becomes part of the economy?
Drawing from Arlie Russell Hochschild's The Commercialization of Intimate Life, this episode explores how modern institutions have reshaped caregiving, emotional labor, and family life. Rather than viewing relationship challenges as isolated personal problems, we examine the larger systems and incentives that quietly reorganize how care is valued, distributed, and increasingly commercialized.
Topics include the care gap, emotional labor, feeling rules, global care chains, outsourcing relationships, and why work increasingly fulfills social roles once held by families and communities.
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This episode was created using AI-assisted production tools with human editorial oversight. Analysis, organization, and editorial framing are original to Crisis in Perception and based on the referenced source material.
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