We count the cookware, not the cooking

What if the work that holds your family together has been deliberately erased from the official record? In this solo episode of The Pressures of Privilege, host Diana Oehrli follows a thread from Forbes cast iron sales data to a conversation with her 80-year-old friend Henry in his garden, where seeds and soil count as consumer spending while the labor he puts in every day vanishes from any ledger that matters. Drawing on feminist economics and the trad wife cultural moment, Diana shows you how our systems of value are built on a sustained erasure of domestic and caregiving labor and what it costs when nobody accounts for the work that keeps families whole. You'll come away with language for what has been left off the ledger and a clearer sense of what it would look like for a society to finally start counting right. If you've ever felt that what you actually carry doesn't show up anywhere that matters... this episode was made for you. Chapters (00:00:04) - The Real Value of Domestic Life(00:06:59) - What Raising a Child Costs