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Guess I'll just start lying about having a kid then.
by antisthenes 10y ago
Guess I'll just start lying about having a kid then.
- Arizhel 10y agoExactly: this is the correct way to handle the situation.
- Oxitendwe 10y agoIs your imaginary kid going to pay into social security? Pay taxes for the roads you drive on? Take up arms to defend your country? If not, then you have no standing to complain when people who contribute more than you are rewarded more than you.
- ionised 10y ago> when people who contribute more than you are rewarded more than you This is one of the shittiest attitudes I've seen on HN in a while. Having a child is not in itself something that qualifies as a greater contribution to the species than anything anyone without children can make. Honestly this is the weirdest kind of child-worship.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoIf you do not have children then you have to contribute considerably more than people with the children just to offset similarly capable people with the children. But I do not think that these matters should be handled on the employer/employee level.
- antisthenes 10y agoMy imaginary kid won't contribute tens of thousands of CO2 to the emissions either. It will exist solely to assuage the preconceived notions of child-worshiping cretins in management who like to give people preferential treatment based on something that's none of their damn business in the first place. So you're welcome. > Take up arms to defend your country? I'll let you know after your girls serve a tour of active combat duty in an infantry platoon.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoMy imaginary kid won't contribute tens of thousands of CO2 to the emissions either. One or two kids are not a problem. They are not over the capacity - two parents having two kinds keeps the capacity in balance.