Pooled infants share every infection. Created by group care: the sick-day problem.
This is a tolerated. A problem people have quietly learned to live around. The most interesting category, because tolerance means nobody has solved it well enough to be noticed. It is felt by the parent, repeatedly, and rates 3 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Safety.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Daycare and childcare centres — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 2 ways: Pediatric care and Backup and sick-child care
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionPooled infants share every infection
- SolutionDaycare and childcare centres
- FrictionSomeone must watch the infant every hour, but someone must also earn
- Life phaseInfancy
- Rooted inSafety
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inScarce time
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.