The Guardian view on the limits of economics: people are priceless | Editorial
by Editorial from Economics | The Guardian on (#4GQN6)
Human beings have a value in themselves that can't be measured
A McKinsey report this week estimates that one in five women's jobs in Britain and the US will be automated away in the next 10 years. Although men's jobs will disappear at about the same rate, the study says, they will do so in a different way: women may face particular difficulties in the transition to the future. It is striking that the report, like others of its kind, values women's work entirely in terms of money.
There are two problems with this. The first, well-known, is that women's work is valued less by the market than men's. The second and larger question is how to think about the value of women's lives, and men's too.
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