[PostOnce]

And then who pays the mortgage that now requires 2 incomes?

We are not building a society, we're building some kind of mass labor camp.

Which means eventually we're going to get a prison riot because people are tired of the conditions.

[black6]

Not all mortgages require two incomes. Ones that do are evidence of the mortgagees getting out over their skis.

[PostOnce]

Maybe for the white collar worker, for now, but what about the blue collar?

The median household income is 80k.

[dangcensors]

You're moving the goalposts. A child's own mother will always provide cheaper and higher quality childcare than a disinterested third party, regardless of the sorry state of our economy.

[Dylan16807]

Cheaper is very much not true if you value time. Devoting the entire workday of an adult to 1-3 children is a huge cost, much more expensive than having one adult handle 6-10 children.

And "higher quality" isn't guaranteed at all. Even with daycare the children are with their parents most of the time, and meeting up with other kids and a trained caregiver during weekdays has a lot of good effects.