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> It's a good thing to take care your own children

If you want to, yes.

If you are forced to because you can't afford childcare I would say that's a bad thing

There is economic efficiency in specialisation, it's economically better to have specialist childcarers while other people work in different specialties. The economy should be structured so that people can choose to leave work to take care of their kids if they want, but not be forced to

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The problem is that if the economy is structured in a way that maximizes efficiency (as most economists/politicians generally argue it should be), then everyone should be forced to use specialist childcare, even if they don't want to, because they could produce more money/value for society by specializing in literally anything else.

I think that the ruthless pursuit of efficiency destroys a lot of what makes us human.

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