work?

The word "work" is one of those words that is disgusting.  That is to say, as people use it....

E.g., who works?  Who really contributes?

My eighty-five year old mother is "retired".  Ha ha ah.  What a joke?  She takes care of my father.

But according to the US gov't and the economics profession, she is not "gainfully employed".

what a joke.  A reductio ad absurdum of the claim that either the US gov't or the economics profession deserve any respect....

When they can so arrogantly ignore reality.

Oh yes, my mother is not unique.  So much the worse for economics and gov't.......