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Re:The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff ... by notadoc on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:45PM (#12322932)
How do you mass produce childcare? Build a nice loving robot? It's a crappy job that pays minimum wage.

As for school, you could easily argue that we already have mass produced education. There is an abundance of low-grade colleges, pseudo-colleges and fake universities that charge fortunes (in debt of course) for an "education" that is worth about as much as grass clippings.

There already is mass produced housing too, they are mobile homes. Do you want to lift whatever local zoning regulation is preventing a mobile home park from popping up nextdoor to you?

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Re:The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff ... by gaius on Friday August 19, 2016 @03:57PM (#12323008)
Or maybe - and this is a crazy idea - but for thousands of years, the parents looked after their kids?? Having someone else do it for you, definitely counts as a luxury not a necessity.
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Re:The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff ... by notadoc on Friday August 19, 2016 @10:14PM (#12324766)
Most households have two career holders and require dual incomes to support these days.
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Re:The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff ... by toomuchtodo on Saturday August 20, 2016 @12:59AM (#12325299)
There in lies the rub: how can we fix the economy so dual incomes are not required?

And yes, the economy is broken if both parents must work.

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Re:The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff ... by gaius on Saturday August 20, 2016 @02:46AM (#12325511)
Just in the middle of the last century, so within living memory, a household with a single earner, even blue-collar, could afford a house, a car, and to send the kids to college. So we do know how to do this.
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Re:The stuff we need is getting more expensive, other stuff ... by notadoc on Saturday August 20, 2016 @04:04PM (#12328100)
Of course we know how to do this. But, politics.
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