Why commitment to quality childcare and early education is incompatible with the profit motive (www.abc.net.au)

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I feel like a quality life for all people is incompatible with the profit motive.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

All the more so incompatible with life when growth is prefixed to profit

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I feel like ~~a quality~~ life for all people is incompatible with the profit motive.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The women working in the Quebec’s national daycare system just sign their new Collective Contract (with the provincial government) and tried to make that exact point … sadly they failed. Hoping that it will work better on your side. ✊

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Think of the children!

Only when we can use it as an excuse to curb freedoms, and never if it conflicts with money!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I was not expecting a headline that goes that hard from the ABC

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