Re:As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit t...
by closeparen on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:36AM
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If the childcare cost burden is only ~20% of the value of lost wages, what's everyone complaining about?
If on the other hand people are finding that childcare costs exceed their wages, then what reason is there to believe that the government will be able to buy childcare so cheaply?
There's an argument to be made that childcare should be provided for free even at a loss. But of all the public good the government could provision, "keep your shitty job even when it doesn't make economic sense to do so" is a weird one. It's LARPing productivity at that point.
If on the other hand people are finding that childcare costs exceed their wages, then what reason is there to believe that the government will be able to buy childcare so cheaply?
There's an argument to be made that childcare should be provided for free even at a loss. But of all the public good the government could provision, "keep your shitty job even when it doesn't make economic sense to do so" is a weird one. It's LARPing productivity at that point.