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Originally Posted by Swaggs
I think with the way the pandemic altered the way we work in the United States, it is pretty fair to say that childcare is infrastructure. If healthcare workers, engineers, educators, etc. are not able to work or their hours are limited to the point that they are not able to provide necessary services because there is not adequate childcare for their families, that impacts the basic framework of businesses and services like hospitals and utility companies. If those services are not functioning well, that impacts businesses and communities quite a bit.
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I get your point, but under that way of defining it anything can be infrastructure. Anything at all. It has no deeper meaning than 'this thing has value to us'. Every part of society impacts other parts, but that doesn't make child care infrastructure any more than migrants at the border are an invasion.
I think redefining words that way is very dangerous. In order for words to mean things, they have to not mean other things, or we end up with a language that we just make up as we go along. To Issidiqui's point, it's not remotely gaslighting. The foundations of communication matter.