It's the duality of labor. Capital posits reproduction ("non-valuable") as the opposite of commodity production ("valuable"), with the appearance of domestic & sexual labor as "socially natural" & "socially unnatural", respectively.
This is the "two workers, one wage" model https://twitter.com/sociaIistspice/status/1349525737091448834
Capital exchanges itself *indirectly* with the labor power of reproduction.
So capital makes sexual & domestic labor *non-directly waged work* by creating the appearance of a "personal service" given to the typically male wage worker by typically female reproduction worker
OnlyFans is an example of the three-way indirect/mediated exchange between repro labor power, capital, & clients (often wage workers).
OF doesn't pay its "creators" (sexual laborers) a wage. Instead, "creators" earn money from a portion of a customer's wage.
Two workers, one wage
Same goes for strippers*, sugar babies, prostitutes, so on. None exchange their labor power for a formal wage. All rely on the wages of others to survive.

*some are now "employees" as a result of struggle, contradictions & capital's elasticity, but most are still non-waged atm.
Similarly, "housewives" (domestic laborers) are not paid a wage in the u.s., & either have a side waged job, or must survive off of money from a portion of their significant others' wage.
Two workers, one wage. It's a brilliant & brutal invention of capital
So, since reproductive labor power is not exchanged on the market for a formal wage & only indirectly interacts with capital, reproductive labor is rendered as a "non-value", and reproductive laborers as "non-workers". That's why

https://libcom.org/files/Leopoldina%20Fortunati%20-%20The%20Arcane%20of%20Reproduction%20-%20Housework,%20Prostitution,%20Labor,%20and%20Capital.pdf https://twitter.com/sociaIistspice/status/1349526183763853318
The complexities of reproduction & the false image of it that capital has built makes it very difficult to demystify the true nature of exploitation (which is the point ofc), especially with such limited characters, so please also read these
The complexities of reproduction & the false image of it that capital has built makes it very difficult to demystify the true nature of exploitation (which is the point ofc), especially with such limited characters, so please also read these
The complexities of reproduction & the false image of it that capital has built makes it very difficult to demystify the true nature of exploitation (which is the point ofc), especially with such limited characters, so please also read these
The complexities of reproduction & the false image of it that capital has built makes it very difficult to demystify the true nature of exploitation (which is the point ofc), especially with such limited characters, so please also read these
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