across the board

[Yilaner]

"Our daily lives, our ideas about who we are, how
we are valued, what we value, our intimate relationships,
what we need and what we do are shaped and textured
by paid employment – partly by the way we actually
experience it and mainly by the assumptions we and
others make about it. This applies across the board,
regardless of whether individuals actually do any paid
work at all. For example, when we talk about the ‘working
week’ we usually mean paid labour, not all the other work
we do that isn’t paid for. We plan our own lives and our
children’s lives around what paid employment seems to
expect from us and what we hope or assume it will deliver
for us."

source: http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/21-hours

I don't understand why the author says "This applies across
the board, regardless of whether individuals actually do any paid
work at all. For example,when we talk about the ‘working
week’ ..." What's the relationship between the statement and
the example? Please explain it to me. Thanks a lot.

[CDB]

This (the effect of the work-for-payment system) is felt by everyone,
not only by those who work for pay. Even people without jobs divide
the week into workdays and weekend, and use the word "work" to mean
"work in return for payment", and not for the unpaid work that we all
do.

[Don Phillipson]

"Yilaner" <yil...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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source: http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/21-hours

This passage is written within the norms of economics (cf.
web site name.) One of the norms of economics is that
the only value reckoned is exchange-value, usually with a
measurable price in money. (Thus mother-love or the thrill
you get from a particular sunset or a piece of music, while
all intrinsically valuable, are transactions economics does
not evaluate, because they have no exchange value.)

This paragraph asserts that everyone's ideas are oriented by
exchange value (wages and prices) including the ideas of the
unemployed or people who have no wage and pay no prices.
(Except for a very few people in tropical countries, this seems
generally true.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)