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0 pointsabustamam5mo ago0 comments

I'd argue that that's the wrong goal. Ideally, families can afford to live off of one salary so that mothers could choose to continue to care for their children if they wanted to do so.

Currently, very few families are privileged enough to live off of one salary. Both parents need to work in order to make ends meet.

I'm not saying it's an easy problem to solve, or that free childcare isn't a good interim solution. But important to keep the end goal in mind.

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Braxton19805mo ago

The government can set up free child care as it has already set up other similar programs.

How would the government make it so that a single salary can provide for a family? Wouldn't this require massive interference with the economy?

abustamamOP5mo ago

Yeah, that's why I said it wasn't an easy problem to solve. No need to let the infeasibility of a perfect solution get in the way of a possible, yet however unideal solution.

venturecruelty5mo ago

I mean, a lack of cheap housing is also a policy failure.

Also, there's already massive interference with the economy, all the time, every day. It's just hard to see, and the working class doesn't benefit from it. Housing isn't just magically expensive by some law of nature.

int_19h5mo ago

Raising children is basically a full time job. Why not compensate it as such?

abustamamOP5mo ago

I'd be on board with that. That was Andrew Yangs whole proposition with UBI. https://2020.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/

Sure it goes to everyone, but I think that's okay. Some parents would still choose to both work, and use their monthly check to pay for daycare. I think the important thing is freedom to choose.

int_19h5mo ago

I do think we need to encourage raising children specifically, but if UBI is assigned regardless of age, then that effectively works out to the same thing - parents will just use those checks for childcare costs, and having more children would translate to more checks.

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Braxton19805mo ago

The government can set up free child care as it has already set up other similar programs.

How would the government make it so that a single salary can provide for a family? Wouldn't this require massive interference with the economy?

abustamamOP5mo ago

Yeah, that's why I said it wasn't an easy problem to solve. No need to let the infeasibility of a perfect solution get in the way of a possible, yet however unideal solution.

venturecruelty5mo ago

I mean, a lack of cheap housing is also a policy failure.

int_19h5mo ago

Raising children is basically a full time job. Why not compensate it as such?

abustamamOP5mo ago

I'd be on board with that. That was Andrew Yangs whole proposition with UBI. https://2020.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/

Sure it goes to everyone, but I think that's okay. Some parents would still choose to both work, and use their monthly check to pay for daycare. I think the important thing is freedom to choose.

int_19h5mo ago

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