It is amazing to watch man’s attempts to beat the market system. Businesses, individuals, and governments are all in this together to see if they can somehow go around predefined limits. We hear that this is a new era or we now have new power players that will somehow lead us to the promised land of getting something for nothing. Gary North calls these types slow learners. In reality, they are no learners. These types are never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Most people are anti-work. They do not like work because they are lazy. They would rather be involved in some mindless endeavor that demands nothing of them. This is because mentally, they have checked out of life. They long for a life where everything is provided for them and they are free to go wherever and do whatever they want. These types are daydreamers. They desire to fashion a world where work is forever banished.
This is not the world that we live in. Paul said it best in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." Being gainfully employed is holiness. The standard of work is found in the Fourth Commandment of the Decalogue. Exodus 20:9 reads, "Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work." This gives a weekly pattern of six days of work and one day off. Since Christ has come, the weekly pattern starts with one day of rest followed by six days of work.
With the recent financial crisis, some people have not been able to afford day care. So they are seeking to find alternative ways to keep working and have their children taken care of. One alternative is to put their children in unlicensed day care. This day care is usually more affordable than day care centers. Of course, there are howls from the licensed day cares because their livelihood is being threatened.
Some of the howls that are being bandied around are that unlicensed care is a dangerous situation. Let us examine this howl. Children have been given by God as a gift and parents have been providing day care for children for six thousand years. This is a natural and normal situation. So why can’t a mother who stays at home be able to provide day care for other children? She is qualified by having her own children and providing day care for them.
The real issue is not the safety of the children. The real issue is that the day care centers do not want the competition. Regulation of day care has limited work opportunities for others thus causing day care centers fees to be overpriced. This industry wants regulation so that they can charge the consumer higher prices. They always say that they are interested in the children, but they are more interested in protecting themselves from other workers. In other words, they are liars.
Parents realize that they have limited options. So the market wins out over man’s regulations. People are going to find a way around government regulations. Call it the black market, but in reality it should be called the white market. The regulatory market is the true black market because this market seeks to limit opportunities for work. This makes the regulatory market anti-work. Regulatory markets are about creating scarcity, therefore driving up the price of their commodities.
People have fixed incomes and they must make decisions that are in their best interests. This means that they will seek to find products at the least price available. The established economic law is that more will be demanded at less price. Day care is no different. The market is winning over regulation. Every time that the market begins to want to deregulate, those whose economic interest are at risk begin to cry to the government to stop this wildcatting. The regulators are our neighbors who use the government to keep us from working.
I applaud those providing unlicensed day care. They are the ones seeking to help their neighbor by providing affordable day care. The established day cares resent the market. The market system is always heading for decentralization. The regulators want control and thus seek to centralize everything. With a decentralized market system comes abundance and plenty of work for all with lower prices. A centralized market system produces scarcity, unemployment, and higher prices. No matter what, the market will win out in the long run as is the case in what is occurring in day care.
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