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You're making a false comparison. When I go to a store or a salon, I am a customer. [b]The business sets the price.[/b] When you employ a nanny, YOU are the business, not a customer. It is YOU setting the value of the service.

I'm also not talking about specific wages, although I think wages for childcare workers are too low across the board. What I'm talking about is the incongruence of the idea that children and their care/education is super important, but somehow the people doing the caring and educating are invisible unskilled low wage workers that society doesn't see fit to protect. We recognize that early childhood experiences are crazy important, but don't give a crap about the workers and you see it reflected in the quality of the workforce. A "nanny" is a dime a dozen, but the ones worth trusting your kid with are few and far between. [/quote]

No, the market sets the price. The salon charges what the market will bear. Same with nannying, it's just more direct.

Moreover, if you believe it's every person's duty to pay what is "fair" - you are simply making an excuse not to pay your nail person a decent wage by saying, "well, the business set the price. I just followed it."[/quote]

It's not that black and white. Some retail stores pay minimum wage or just barely more. Others pay much better wages, and offer their employees benefits. A business can choose to direct a grater share of its profits to paying it's employees. I'm not paying the nail person's wage. That's the difference between being a consumer vs. an employer. When you hire a nanny you become an employer, like it or not. I don't know why you keep trying to ignore the facts of the point you're trying to make. Purchasing a service from a business is not the same as setting the wage of your employee. [/quote]

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