done for free

Indeed, the proposed solution touches on a toxic American narrative that continues to plague mothers — that caring for children is the domain of women and such labor should be done for free.

Yet monitoring these enormous multinational corporations with nontransparent operations involving tens of thousands of individual workers is not something that can be done for free.

For them, the work of caring for children, starting at birth, was supposed to be done for free by a woman in a male-controlled household and hence is called reproductive.

“He was just really good at keeping me loose and keeping me laughing and we had such a great time together that it was almost like stealing money. It was so enjoyable that it was something that I would have done for free based on the moments and experiences we had together.”

It requires only that the world continue to turn and the seasons continue to change, as they always have done, for free.