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Comment by vkou | Hacker News Reader

Parents never did this when both of them worked.

Grandparents did this.

Unfortunately, these days, parents can't afford to keep living near the grandparents (because home prices have gone up too much, or because the grandparents are in a dead-end no-jobs town).

Your options are to fix the housing market (By which, I mean, utterly destroy the value of existing homes[1]), or to make it possible for a single breadwinner to feed a family again (again, this is largely driven by the cost of housing) or to make due with the status quo.

[1] That's going to be hugely popular among demographics that vote. /s

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Also a lot of the grandparents are way older since they did college instead of kids at 20 thing. It makes a difference my parents are both close enough but other than 1 hour maybe a month is taxing for them to watch my demonspawn.

Grandparents are now paid out via violence against the children (aka taxes) once they grow up. Why would they participate in raising the kid when the unspoken quid-pro-quo is no longer present and their benefits are guaranteed? There used to be significant bilateral benefit.

I guess that's the state of the world today, where actual violence is rare enough that people start calling things that don't cause any bodily harm with the same term.

Question: if I stop paying my taxes will the sheriff come with guns and toss me out? How many people want to find out?

This happens with social security and other taxes too, just usually takes a bit longer and they wait until you owe a lot more. The violence is there, it's just under the polite veneer of pay up or get got.

Depends on the kind of taxes you pay. They can put a lien on your house, garnish your wages, etc. Eventually, sure they may put you in prison, but generally they aren't going to hurt you doing it unless you try to hurt them. You're just renaming coercive measures violence.

And this is super abused by older people that didn't even bother adding their own children to society. Childless and less expenses their whole life, then the same societal benefits provided in old age as provided to people that contributed to society via childrearing.

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