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What? It’s paid leave. You get your whole salary, but you don’t come to work.
by jonathankoren 8y ago
What? It’s paid leave. You get your whole salary, but you don’t come to work.
- sokoloff 8y agoYes, and where do you imagine the money comes from?
- jschwartzi 8y agoFrom all of us single people who are likely never going to have children. I'm fine with that. Hell, you can take it out of the mortgage interest deduction that I will never get.
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- krschultz 8y agoIf you're going to make a financial argument (as opposed to the moral one), you should take a look at how we fund entitlements in this country. You want population growth. The financial disincentive for having kids is a real problem.
- vkou 8y agoIf you want to make an economic argument, we don't want exponential population growth, unless you are looking forward to an unmitigated ecological disaster. You want a steady population level, whether via births, or immigration, or both.
- quadrangle 8y agoIf we actually take long-term economics in mind (broadly, the opportunity-cost and overall net effect style of economics, not the myopic just-count-real-dollars one), then we do NOT want population growth. We don't want an aging population that has to be supported by a shrinking working-age population, but we don't want to be trapped in a growth bubble either. We want sustainable population with ever increasing quality of life due to scientific and technological advancement. Population growth might be truly desired if we get to colonizing other planets…
- jonathankoren 8y agoYOUR SALARY! Let’s stop pretending that this is some fantastical idea. Good employers in the United States do this today. Employers across the world do much more than this. Or perhaps you’re ignorant of Sweden’s 240 days of paid parental leave per parent? https://sweden.se/quickfact/parental-leave/ https://sweden.se/quickfact/parental-leave/