But only if you really would’ve spent the money and couldn’t have cut corners[/quote]
The numbers detailed in my post to BG are very real numbers. As stated, they are on the (very) low side, if anything.
And stop trying to use cost-shifting as a way to “prove” that these things don’t have value. Just because somebody else is paying for them doesn’t mean that they don’t have value.
And why in the world would anyone cut corners in order to give themselves LESS time with their families (cutting corners to tweak the numbers to make the numbers favor wage-earning over caretaking)? If anything, they would cut corners in order to stay home more (if that is what they would prefer), not so that they could work more.
