PSA: Caregiving is NOT unskilled labor.

I run two small businesses while being the primary caregiver to an elder with significant support needs that are likely to increase over time.

I just had an affluent white man question why I didn't solve all of my problems by finding "anyone in the neighborhood, preferably a SAHM whose kids are at school", to stop by on occasion for 30 minutes for pennies to magically solve all of my challenges with this. His explicit example of this being unskilled:

Getting someone up off the floor who couldn't get up by themselves.

@karinlovisa any time anyone suggestions that you “just” do something i have to fight every bone in my body to ask them why they dont just do it then since its so easy

-carrie

@karinlovisa
that sounds like he has only had to do that for people who could *almost* do it by themselves