[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

"Emotional labor". Sounds like something feminists would come up with.

After all, who has the luxury of taking emotion seriously? Spoiled rich white women AKA feminists. Everyone else in the world is too busy to indulge their hormones, they have to suppress their emotions because they have things that need to get done.

We built this city with drama and feeeelings....

Is drama-work the same as lifting rusty rebar? Sure, I guess, but please princess, tell us about the last time somebody died on your jobsite. That happens in men's work. Is there emotional labor going on when a man washes the blood of his buddy from the machinery? Obviously not for you their isn't.

And who else but a richwhiteprincess would be delusional enough to think that emotions have value? People may joke about yummy salty tears, but that's not actually a thing. Your tears are valueless.

The whole thing stinks of Marx's "labor theory of value" which, when dumbed-down for ordinary people, translates into "I put lots of effort into making this spinach and turnip jello, therefore it is delicious".

No - when you choose which plumber to hire, do you judge them by the amount of sweat that evaporates from their visible buttcracks, or do you choose the one that successfully get the jobs done?

The price of something is value of something of something, as judged by the customer - if you're choosing between identical cakes, do you pay more for the one whose baker had an emotional breakdown? No - because it's the same cake, and therefore has the same value. The drama added no value.

Unless someone can go above and beyond "it's not my job to educate you", I will continue to assume that "Emotional labor" isn't.