"I mean it's one child, Michael. How much could it cost? Five thousand dollars?"
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Remember all the garbage about welfare queens? I thought this was something that was morally wrong in the 90s to support people who have kids?
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Giving everyone 5k would more meaningfully improve birth rates than asking educated young people worried about their future childrens' standard of living to take a leap for the cost of one small medical emergency.
I can't tell if sarcasm or not. But no this won't do anything.
Russia/Asian countries do this already it has barely any effect at all. Again it comes down to both money and culture. Can't throw money at a problem without changing the culture you're just half assing it.
5000 is genuinely nothing when it comes to raising a child.
40k/year sounds premium. But what little do I know, I am German and pay about 3k/year for a very nice Kindergarten.
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What’s stopping communal childcare from becoming a thing again? This is how working parents did it for thousands of years.
I imagine a mix of the already diminished size of extended family units, and the liability implications if it's outside your own family unit.
You're essentially just describing an unlicensed daycare if it's not a family member, and those exist.
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A lack of communities. Communal child care works great when you live in a village and you know everyone and most people around you are related to you.
We don’t have that anymore. People live in suburbs where they don’t even want to talk to their neighbours. Their relatives live far away, potentially in other provinces/states or even other countries.
Heck, a lot of people don’t even like their own relatives!
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He is rich and has no reference for the price of everyday items
It's one year of daycare, Michael. What could it cost? $5000?
Think of how many bananas you could buy with $5k.
"It's raising a child for ~20 years, Michael. What could it cost? 5k?"
Do we get to choose how it’s distributed? Here are some fun options I came up with.
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$13.69 per day for a year. (Nice). About $419/month. Maybe they could round up to $420 because they stale internet meme culture is hip
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$0.76 per day for 18 years. A guaranteed $22.80 per month for an entire childhood
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$5000 lump sum. I can’t find any widely accepted figures for average out of pocket cost of prenatal care, child birth, and infant health visits. I’ll wild ass guess it a at covering 20-75% of those visits for people who have insurance. For people without insurance, looks like an uncomplicated vaginal birth averages $14k. But again huge variations in price