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Lol. Yes. The failure is treating child care like a market.
by burneraccountt 4y ago
Lol.
Yes. The failure is treating child care like a market.
- ch4s3 4y agoIs it not a service that can be provided by someone outside of the immediate family? Should those caregivers not be paid? If yes to both, that is a market. If you provide it as an entitlement, you still need some mechanism to know how many (coarsely put) units of child care to produce. [*edit] for the down-voters, I'm curious what is your disagreement here?
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- ilikerashers 4y agoThe government can step in to fund areas that shouldn't be a free-for-all market. Parents struggling to pay for childcare is the government saying a parent's job is to stay at home if they can't cover childcare. It's a big issue in the UK and likely to be key in the next election as prices have gone sky-high.
- ch4s3 4y agoThere's still a market there. There's demand which will be HIGHLY sensitive to the price government sets, and labor which is in many OECD economies in short supply.
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoI would guess that some people are disagreeing that this particular service is seen by most purchasers of it as a commodity. Others are probably disagreeing because they're conflating "market" with "free market", and this sort of service has a bunch of constraints from all sides.
- ch4s3 4y agoI don't know what to tell them. It is basically a commodity, especially for young children there isn't a lot of differentiation once health and safety concerns are taken care of as there isn't much "enrichment" a daycare can realistically supply for an infant or toddler. Moreover, any provider of a service like this will have to compete on the market for care-givers to do the labor.