• 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.au
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      5 months ago

      Daycare is a multibillion dollar industry. The previous company I worked at here in Australia was owned by big an American private investment firm (Bain Capital).

      My centres company owned about 70 centres under them, and their owners had many other childcare corporations they owned across the globe.

      I work for a not for profit now and while they run 76 centres, they actually care about the children.

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      I’m honestly slightly confused by this response. Any business type will end up with some that do well, open more locations and get some manner of central office. It’ll inevitably be some manner of corporation because that just how we structure any business beyond small. The daycare is where the kids go and the office their handles local stuff like contact forms and medical notes, and corporate office handles billing and such.

      Like, yeah it’s weird for something as personal as childcare to be a franchise, but no one gets too worked up about corporate pharmacies and that’s literally trusting a stranger giving you a bottle of drugs to eat not to hand you the poison they keep a few feet over.

      It’s weird and kinda dystopian, but I’m confused by the shock.

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        5 months ago

        because if it involves a profit motive it involves exploitation inherent in this motive. to apply that exploitation to a service that provides care for children would mean there is a nonzero chance the place is not prioritizing child care and safety over profit.

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          5 months ago

          Literally every paid daycare has a profit motive. The issue you take is with scale, not motive.

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            5 months ago

            Wrong. In the northern Europe the daycare are owned by the government and are not for profit. They are still payed but without profit motive

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    5 months ago

    LOL I did the same when I tried to reach the company of the landlord. They never go on the phone, so I searched and found a job offer on Facebook. They instantly got on the phone …. I love it