“The second earner isn’t working for a vacation or a boat. The second earner is working to pay the stranger watching their children so they can go to work”
Discussion
Our grandparents were babysat by the nextdoor neighbours, or an aunty, or their own grandparents etc.
Whatever happened to that?
Sending kids to school is bad enough but paying strangers to watch younger ones feels deeply wrong to me.
no wonder western societies seem to be degrading at an impressive rate.
if kids are the future, this is a large cohort expressing their priorities clearly - we don’t value it. It is the epitome of high time preference