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>“Would you pay higher taxes to allow the government to set up a network of publicly funded childcares?”

This is a pretty good example of the scaling problem with with transferring voluntary personal work to socialized and financialized government work.

Some activities benefit from economies of scale and others do not.

It is more efficient to hire dedicated garbage man for a curbside trash pickup then if everyone took their trash to the dump. However, it would be terribly inefficient to have garbage men following people around picking up their trash. Half of the population would always have to be on shift following the other half, and 100% of the population would have to work as garbage men.

Is there a economic term for this phenomenon of inverse economies of scale?