Why Child Care Is So Expensive

Re:Why Child Care Is So Expensive by organsnyder on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:40PM (#21746290)

Population growth leads to more consumers as well as producers. Activating a "dormant" producer segment (as if stay-at-home parenting isn't producing tangible value...) leads to an increase in producers, while the number of consumers stays the same.

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Re:Why Child Care Is So Expensive by jdbernard on Monday December 09, 2019 @05:39PM (#21747434)

And I'll point out that your parenthetical is one of the points of the article: that stay-at-home parenting is apparently extremely costly to replace.

So it's a double-edged sword: you flood the supply side with new laborers while keeping the demand side static, and you increase the general cost of living because you now have to pay for childcare that you used to get for free.

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Re:Why Child Care Is So Expensive by anthonypasq on Monday December 09, 2019 @05:38PM (#21747426)

dual income houses have more money to spend...

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