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Re:The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care by tayo42 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @10:45AM (#44734908)
Child care is incredibly expensive, idk how anyone who isn't incredibly rich does it. Like 1k a month to get your child watched for 3 half days a week.

Who has a spare 1-2k laying around per month?

Also annoying this article introduced Baumol effect without mentioning what it is and just plugging a their book.

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Re:The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care by mjohn on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @10:56AM (#44735052)
That's a bit unfair. The Baumol effect is well known to most people in the author's audience.

If you had clicked on the link to his book you would have found out that it's available for free: https://www.mercatus.org/students/research/books/why-are-pri...

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Re:The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care by JTbane on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @10:55AM (#44735046)
It seems like the childcare companies recognize that it's either one parent quits their full-time job or pays them.
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Re:The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care by bombcar on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @11:42PM (#44742119)
Quit your full time job and do home childcare!
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Re:The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care by ndjeosibfb on Thursday July 31, 2025 @12:01PM (#44746989)
why is this always presented as a bad thing?
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Re:The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care by bombcar on Thursday July 31, 2025 @03:04PM (#44748967)
Because people are deathly afraid of poopmachines for some reason.
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Re:The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care by pempem on Thursday July 31, 2025 @03:18PM (#44749101)
Because when the person who quits their job becomes in some other way disenfranchised or their partner is unable to work for some reason, there is no safety net, no savings and no established career they can find their way back into. Healthcare is tied to a job. Retirement is tied to a job. Social security is a joke. etc. etc. etc.
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