[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19, was: Re: Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <ca3ebcb7-d2ba-4184-b013-2f10f07c87b2 at googlegroups.com>,
seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> writes: 

> On Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 2:50:04 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to=
>  reply) wrote:
> > In article <ccc9afbf-ea46-44b2-acaa-399fe1427a8e at googlegroups.com>,
> > seasoned_geek <> writes:=20
> >
> > > I believe he is talking about parents who enroll their kids in
> > > before/after school programs so they won't have to pay for daycare.=20
> > > Most school days start after parents leave for work and end well before
> > > they get home otherwise.  It's basically been institutionalized in
> > > Chicago.
> >
> > Pay for daycare?  Right, free daycare would be socialism, and so people
> > vote for Trump rather than Bernie.  Got it.
> 
> No, it's a much bigger problem than that. 

Yes, the USA is broken.  We know that.

In civilized countries, there is free or heavily subsidized health care.
There are few stay-at-home parents, not because they are out partying, 
but because both are working.  With a couple of kids, one needs to be at 
home for a few years at most---not worth giving up a career for.  As a 
result of both working, the standard of living is high.  People have 
children because they want them and spend a lot of time with them 
outside of working hours (which might be only 20--35 hours per week).  
Thanks to sex education and readily available contraceptives, there are 
practically no unwanted children.