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Women's healthcare costs several times more than mens over their lifetime (and that's before factoring in pregnancy). Countries are just fine "equalizing" that
by hajile 10y ago
Women's healthcare costs several times more than mens over their lifetime (and that's before factoring in pregnancy). Countries are just fine "equalizing" that even though that means that men pay way more for their health insurance than they should have to. How many people complain about this happening?
Collectivism is just fine when you are the one on the receiving end. Either we set absolute lines of discrimination across all industries or we disallow it entirely.
- tptacek 10y agoGenerally we're most of us in society pretty comfortable with paying for the continuation of the species. There are exceptions to every rule, of course; some of us (not including me) are unhappy we pay to pave the streets, too.
- idanoeman 10y agoI don't think that we need to be subsidizing babies when the world population is 7.4 billion.
- qb45 10y agoThe problem is that retirement is a Ponzi scheme and it's not clear if the current 3rd world children will care (or even have the means to care) about our 1st world problems in the future.
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- vorotato 10y agoThat argument was just as valid when there were only 2000 people.
- tptacek 10y agoBut you're pretty happy you're here, right?
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- bzbarsky 10y ago> paying for the continuation of the species The parent comment explicitly said "before factoring in pregnancy". So this is not about continuation of the species, if that comment is correct.
- tptacek 10y agoI think the parent comment is wrong about that, and is ruling out a lot of reproductive health issues.