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> #2 is childcare. Cheap, plentiful, good quality. This costs infinite money. It's impossible to scale, because nobody wants an environment where their child

> #2 is childcare. Cheap, plentiful, good quality. This costs infinite money. It's impossible to scale, because nobody wants an environment where their child is not getting attention from compassionate, engaged adults throughout the day. To get the same level of care as a stay at home parent, you need as many care workers as there are families with young children. And if you pay those workers comparably to the average wage, you need to tax the entire wages of one parent in each family to cover the care costs. It's probably much cheaper to write checks to families encouraging them to have one parent care for their own children full time.

markeroon 1y ago
Most provinces in Canada have $10/day childcare
- jimbokun 1y ago
  So the workers there are paid $10 / day? $50 if they’re watching 5 kids, $100 for 10, etc. That’s assuming 0 overhead.
  - footy 1y ago
    No, it's subsidized. The same way public schools or libraries or universities are.
specialist 1y ago
> write checks to families Ideally, yes. But I'm not going to tell someone they can't work. My wife was stay-at-home, until she couldn't take it any more, and then returned to work. Even though it cost us more overall (childcare, second car, etc).