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If you think about it, the "productivity revolution" is only needed because of how expensive it is to run a childcare facility in a place where there are lots o
by throwway120385 3y ago
If you think about it, the "productivity revolution" is only needed because of how expensive it is to run a childcare facility in a place where there are lots of children. If you lower the intensity with which a facility in a city needs to produce income to carry the cost of parking minimums and housing for its employees, then that would eliminate the problem too.
In-home childcare that resembles a hobby is called "parenting" and in the absence of a commercial option one half of a couple often ends up spending all of their time doing this until the child is of age to be placed in school. I think a lot of the problems our society has come from not valuing this or denigrating it as "hobby" work.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> a lot of the problems our society has come from not valuing this or denigrating it as "hobby" work Some people enjoy that work, but a lot of people don't. The empirical result of forcing it is people have fewer children.
- throwway120385 3y agoI won't try to tell anyone what they should do with their time, but all I'm saying is that calling "keeping children in a home and raising them" a "hobby business" feels like it's denigrating that type of work when it's actually really important to having a functioning society. If you hire someone to change diapers and bottle-feed your child I'm not going to judge you for it. I've had similar conversations with my partner about our baby. Modern society is complicated and we're expected to live so intensely that it's hard to find time.
- michaelt 3y agoBy "in-home child care hobby business" I assume what nocoiner means is: If San Francisco childcare costs are $25/hour why is anyone pouring coffees or flipping burgers if looking after three kids brings in $75/hour? Obviously some people don't have the space - but many do. Surely it's lucrative enough that there shouldn't be a shortage of supply?
- thatfrenchguy 3y agoSF childcare costs are usually around ~20 an hour per child in 1:2 (under the table, where folks who can afford it get an indirect subsidy from the government via Medi-cal and dodging fica) nanny shares where the nanny goes in your home. It’s a vaguely healthy market from what my friends tell me. Doesn’t work in the suburbs where you won’t find a family 3 blocks from your house with a similar age child. You would think it would be more common though given how much useless sqft folks in the suburbs have.
- bombcar 3y ago"in-home child care hobby business" means stay-at-home parent. But in the non-urban areas around here there are in-home childcare setups, that have to follow specific laws. I assume something could be done similar in urban areas, but the size of house that is amenable to it may be limited in number.
- opine-at-random 3y agoCannot wait to leave my children with some rando with excess space whose alternative career prospects are flipping burger for $25/hr. /s
- throwway120385 3y agoMy parents did that for me and it was totally fine.