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This is such a low effort response. I worked on the board of Directors for my daughter's daycare in the US for 8 years. Literally none of this is true. We are a non-profit and our audits are public. Feel free actually look for the accounting for a child or elder care facility and you'll find plenty of them. You'll find them anything other than horrendous. They're boring and exactly what you'd expect them to look like.
Even without margin as a factor because we're a non-profit we are still charging as much as my mortgage for an infant.
This might sound obvious but operating a care facility is expensive. Labor is the driving cost, by far, and what makes it so is legally mandated caretaker ratios. 4 infants per. 6 Toddlers per. 10 children per. Imagine if you were splitting just an infant caretaker's salary four ways, without benefits or other costs. Literally federal poverty wages would be $700/month for you. Without benefits. Without facilities. Without supplies. Just a person's full time supervision. And that person would qualify for SNAP benefits.
While there are definitely orgs focused on investor returns they're not the root cause. Care is just expensive.
Don't get all righteous at the people who dedicate their lives to caring for people in need. Even those in charge of the facilities can be doing it for the right reasons. Look at the government. Why aren't we supplementing these critical services? In my state Medicare and education are already the top tax expenditures by far. You might be able to shift some $ between priorities but the real answer appears to be that we're just not funding the government sufficiently for it to do all things for all people. If we don't take advantage of the scale of government then we're going to be paying for this stuff out of pocket.
It's just expensive no matter how you solve the problem.
Productivity has soared since the 70s. Tax the fucking rich at 1950s levels. Then subsidize care work.
This is why I care about automation, not because I think care work can be, but at the end of the day if we put our capital towards making it so everyday people had they needs met with less labor then we can more easily afford it, but also frankly taking care of our young and the old should be where you spend our collective wealth on. Imho at least