Capitalism is incapable of reproducing human society. Another argument for communism.

My family relies on a complex system of aunts and uncles and grandparents watching their nephews and nieces and grandkids and having different off days to avoid interacting with the daycare industry and if we didn't I honestly think all of us with kids would be destitute. I genuinely can't imagine paying 1k+ a month for childcare, I don't know where the money would come from.

But the economy's doing great

We pay in the ballpark of $38,000 a year for child care for 2 kids. It's insane to think about it in those terms. There was a time in my life where I made less then that a year, I know people who make less then that now. They're not renting let alone thinking about having kids. If one of us stopped working to stay at home with the kids we wouldn't be able to afford or house. We are waiting for relief in the form of kindergarten.

Wow gee golly sure wonder why people aren't having kids, must be those nefarious Jews behind it!

Such a perverse cycle, need to work to live > need to pay for childcare > need to work more > need more childcare > etc.

Childcare was always a shared responsibility, prehistoric tribes worked this shit out quite easily. Our deathly atomized society is increasingly flunking it.

I know a family that has 3 kids, one with a medical condition. Dad's a high school wrestling coach and mom os a nurse. They crunched the numbers and found that childcare cost them $50 a month more than what mom was working, so she quit her job to take care of her kids. This is in rural Ohio, where childcare costs more than college. A nurse was literally paying for the privilege of having a terrible amd stressful job. It would be hilarious watching the powers that be keep redefining what a recession/depression was to avoid labeling our economy as being in one if ot wasn't for the fact that we are all struggling because of it.