It’s called my parents never used the government for anything but free handouts and false wars.

We should have had so many more markets regulated but tHeFreEMARket or some bullshit.

My xgf was working at Terwilliger in Portland and they charged like $22 per hour for the residents and paid out $11 to people who had the most insane CNA job. 24 hour shifts by YOURSELF? She had to lift people 3 times her size in some cases. Residents paid $10k per month at the time. That was minimum. This was Portland of all places. Where are the worker protections? Why is that place making money hand over fist with bare minimum staffing? Portland isn’t all that progressive when it comes to workers rights and protections unless that’s changed over the past 14 years.

Unionize.

You do understand the economy.

It’s just not nice.

I did some quick math to see how overexagirated prices were for preeschool.

Average pay here is (in EUR gross) 2400 + 200 lunch/transportation cost. So the average worker costs a company ~3000 (so called gross-gross as each company has to contribute taxes per worker).

Given an adult/child ratio of 1 : 8 and a school of 80 kids. The teachers would cost 30k EUR in salaries alone. This comes to 375 EUR per child. Add 80 for food and its 455 eur. No maintenance costs or room for profit here. Lets round it to 500 EUR for that.

If the ratio is 1 : 10. Its 75 EUR cheaper.

As mentioned the average sallary is 2400 gross, this comes down to 1500 net. 500 EUR is one third of 1500 EUR. I obviously didnt use real teacher wages and used the average, didnt account for maintenance workers, heating, accounting or anything else. The prices actually sound reasonable but are a little lower due to subsidies.

Cheaper to hire a daycare staff member for your home instead?