Marilyn Waring : The unpaid work that GDP ignores — and why it really counts

Marilyn Waring·TEDxChristchurch
The unpaid work that GDP ignores — and why it really counts
Summary
I knew about the meaning of the word “LEISURE” just a few days before reading the article and I was shocked. It means that we must think that it’s free time for enjoyment, although it’s not wrong, it’s free from work or other demands and duties. Frankly, it’s including not only shopping, going somewhere but also cleaning, vacuuming, sweeping, preparing food, laundry, sleeping and so on thus something is not enjoyable, right!?
And then, the number of GDP: gross domestic products is used to measure how your country is growing. It’s measured everything that involved a marked transaction but it doesn’t matter whether the exchange is legal or illegal. For Example, drugs and even the trafficking of people. It all counts, though, cleaning, vacuuming, sweeping, preparing food and etc. Those are served for families and children very hard, women think that those are really hard works, though, it doesn’t count at all. When you stop buying water of a pet bottle for our Earth or when you don’t go to work to study, it doesn’t count so those unpaid works are ignored.

Now, even economists must know about what is the most valuable thing and the number of GDP doesn’t work well, though, the number of GDP continues to be used. The speaker works to stop or rethink using this.

I think that Japanese people have to rethink this the most because when people think about the number of GDP, they struggle that works are too busy, all things are too expensive and it’s difficult to have children.