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Child care is a significant and major expense in the US, most of the people on HN that work for tech companies work for companies that more or less are openly hostile towards married employees with families, in fact anything less than a young single working willing to drink the company cool-aide often “isn’t a good culture fit”. But the average worker has additional costs that never get factored in just to work, transportation (for me that’s about $600/month), dry cleaning ($100), food (of course this can’t be negated entirely but is often more expensive while working outside the home).

The downvotes are because the haves want the have nots to shut up and get back to work for them. It’s the equivalent of taking legitimate points raised by workers and responding with stop being a smart ass.