I suspect it's more a natural skills shortage. I've seen it in every western dense urban area I know of. Supply is low because Child Care is highly skilled, labour intensive, low pay, mostly only open to women, and with substantial stress and liability associated with it.
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If there is a 10-year line because employee pay is low, increase prices and pay your workers more...?
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Costs are fundamentally limited by the salaries of the child's parents. At a certain threshold of cost, parents will leave work and will take care of the children themselves.
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Additionally, the work, at least where I live (Australia) is VERY low status (basically, you are a kid janitor.), and requires a fairly high level diploma. It's a vocational career. To change this you'd probably need to make it like oil rig pay, near 6 figures.
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Look, you do not normally get to simultaneously talk about 11 - year wait times *and* prices not being able to go high enough to pay for supply. Normally you raise prices some, supply increases some, demand drops some, the long lines go away.
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It's not price, it's status. It's a skilled job occupying a social and pay niche usually dominated with unskilled workers. So you can either raise job status so people want to do it, raise prices so far nannies wages rise, raising demand further, or let unskilled people do it.
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How about the waiting list for Packers season tickets or rafting the Grand Canyon?
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Who owns the Grand Canyon? Who owns the stadium?
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Touché But how would the supply of season tickets be made greater without playing many more games?
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I see your thesis, but no substantial argument, just a bald statement of a conclusion with no intervening discussion or supporting facts.
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This one was quite the outlier. We got in at another centre when he was 2. And for whatever two data points are worth, we now live in a place with far, far more regulation of daycares. After moving here, we got a daycare spot for our youngest right down the street within days.
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To be fair - Soviet Russia didn't have any lines to daycare, there was an abundance of pre-school/school activities as well, all completely free. This cannot be said about other areas, especially consumer goods.
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Soup kitchens and homeless shelters also have long lines. Trying to purchase a popular xmas toy that is nearly sold out—enormous lines.
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Hmm. No, I think that the problem isn't regulation; it's that our economy is fundamentally not set up to value child rearing. There's no money in it because it is (viewed as) a time sink that isn't properly monetized.
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Hahaha though what is the answer? Young adults paying back their guardians a large portion of their income.
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Fighting with regulation ~ fighting with insurance. No government --> survival of the fittest [luckiest]. Question is: does my governance sys guarantee a minimum level of happiness 4 all and reduce effects of pure luck? only criticize and improve regulation. Can't eliminate it
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And yes the "minimum happiness" is subjective; because "rights" are subjective; designs to reduce cruelty of nature.
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Yup. Bureaucracies produce results like these, and any company so bureaucratic itself would have gone under by now.
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and yet, it seems not enough (or good enough) regulation happened, given that in 2013 ontario had to up the regulations following the death of an infant in a daycare in a car...and the regulated daycares seem to kill more kids than the unreg ones prolly just wrong regulations
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