资本主义者将生产定义为创造具有价值、有益于个人的商品或服务的过程。在他们看来，生产就是创造效用（利益），或增加效用。然而，资本主义经济并不考虑所有的利益，而是只局限于那些可以进行买卖（可交易）的物质经济层面的利益。

Capitalists define production as the process that leads to the creation of goods or services that have a value, contributing to the benefit of individuals. According to them, production is the creation of benefit (utility) or increasing it. However, the capitalist economy does not take into account all the benefits. Instead the matter is restricted only to the benefit to the materialistic economy that are merchandisable (tradable).

因此，一位女性为家庭操持家务、照料家中事务和孩子，只有当她把这些劳动作为服务出售给他人时，才被视为具有生产性。至于她在家中为了家庭和孩子而为自己所做的事情，从微观经济学的角度看，尤其是从所谓"机会成本"的角度看，被视为对劳动力市场的损失。因此，经济学家并不考虑女性作为母亲和主妇所发挥的社会效用（益处）以及养育（子女）的作用，而是以物质效用的标准进行评估。

So the work of a woman who performs household chores, taking care of the affairs of the home and the children, is considered productive only if she sells it as service to others. As for her action for herself in her home for the sake of her family and children, it is considered from a microeconomic point of view, specifically from the angle of so-called ‘opportunity cost,' as a loss to the labor market. Thus economists do not take into consideration the social utility (benefit) and the role of raising (children) performed by a woman, by being a mother and a housewife. Instead, they evaluate with the criterion of materialistic utility.

主导西方社会的物质功利观，使人只以经济功用的尺度来衡量。人的价值仅在社会中从经济意义上被评估。他的目标由其在工作机器中所进行的生产与消费所决定。他像橱柜的合页一样，围绕着生产与消费旋转。物质主义的现代化催生了所谓的西方异化哲学，正如齐美尔在《货币哲学》中所描述的那样，人与人的关系因此越来越多地由货币来中介。因此，我们看到一位女性因从事自然的、本能的社会角色——作为母亲和主妇——而感到羞耻，这并不令人惊讶，因为这种角色在经济上并不具有生产性。于是，她全身心地投入劳动力市场，忽视了家庭与家人，结果导致家庭的破碎以及对子女的伤害。

The view of materialistic utility that dominates Western society causes man to be evaluated on the scale of economic utility alone. Man’s value is evaluated only in the economic sense within society. His goals are determined by the production and consumption performed by man, in the machinery of work. He revolves around production and consumption like the hinge of a cupboard. Materialistic modernization resulted in the so-called Western philosophy of alienation, as described in Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money, whereupon relationships become more and more mediated by money. Thus there is no surprise for us to see a woman, for instance, feeling ashamed of undertaking a natural, instinctive, social role, as a mother and a housewife, because this is not productive economically. Therefore, she entered into the labor market with all her energy, neglecting her home and family, which in turn resulted in the fragmentation of the family and losses to children.