Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018)

Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by minikites on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:29AM (#25301999)

>Our Capitalist system does acknowledge benefits that have no tangible monetary value - by allowing people to freely spend money on what they care about.

So the most "successful" society under this reasoning is one where every parent works and childcare is done by employees instead of parents. There's no economic benefit to raising a young child, so the only other option under your axioms is "people want to pay for it".

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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by Chris2048 on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:50PM (#25305447)

I'm not sure how this follows from what I said which only concerns people being forced to pay for childcare for other peoples children, but if a parent cannot afford to stay at home at look after their own kids then what is the alternative? I'm also not assuming "childcare done by employees" is necessarily worse than from their parents, at least employees could be regulated.

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