So you want highly trained professionals, skilled in the raising of children, working at the daycares? Of course. While the moms use their degrees in nuclear physics for the benefit of society.

Seriously, the suggestion from the dutch labour party was a bad one and good arguments against (as well as theories as to why the suggestion popped up in the first place) has been presented in these comments. If you are not advocating a society where everybody manages their own production, the argument that "since someone must pay it is just being a housewife by proxy" is a bad argument.

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