Mastodawn

They pay $34 for burgers. Should their fire department service be free? Opening a new fire department in one of NYC's richest neighborhoods has some of America's pettiest journalists asking silly questions in headlines again.🤡

The article acknowledges the fire department analogy, then blows past it.🤷🏿‍♂️

The solve for "Sometimes when a service like free childcare is available to all, marginalized communities get squeezed out," is "Address that racism."

It's not "Therefore waste incredible amounts of time and money trying to means test something that society should just make available to all.🤡"

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Fishercat 1d ago

@mekkaokereke

I agree that the solve for marginalized communities getting squeezed out of public goods is to address that racism. I also think there are ways to put marginalized communities at the head of the line. Because there will be a line.

It looks like they selected the neighborhoods where the first few childcare slots are going in based on child poverty levels and lack of childcare access. That seems exactly right to me. If there are some wealthy parents in that net, fine. Their kids' buddies won't be.

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DB Schwein 1d ago

@Fishercat @mekkaokereke

Yes, this.

What part of "universal" does the NYT not understand?

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Wendroid 🇺🇦

@deirdrebeth @Fishercat @mekkaokereke That poor kids might get something that rich kids get.