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Cost of literally everything. Housing, food, health insurance, education, child care, etc... all while wages are stagnant. Our society is sick and the people in
by thinkingtoilet 3y ago
Cost of literally everything. Housing, food, health insurance, education, child care, etc... all while wages are stagnant. Our society is sick and the people in charge are wildly out of touch with the reality most people face.
- acdha 3y agoHousing is the biggest one here, though, because it hits in two key ways: people need bigger houses to have kids but also they need childcare, and the cost of real estate makes that brutal because people need daycare to be close enough to be practical travel-wise and it’s a labor-intensive business without great economies of scale so all of the workers also need to be able to make rent in the area. This is a classic area where government support would make a huge difference: don’t have a bunch of small businesses competing with Starbucks on rent, and have things like healthcare paid for out of a huge pool of employees.