> How is paying employees to sit at home not working anything other than charity They are not sitting at home doing nothing, they are raising children. Helping

> How is paying employees to sit at home not working anything other than charity They are not sitting at home doing nothing, they are raising children. Helping them to do that is companies' share of investment into the workforce of tomorrow. Your utilitarian "fair" worldview doesn't account for the fact that having kids is insanely profitable to the economy. In modern economies, every kid is worth at least a million bucks over lifetime. If you choose not to have kids and not contribute in this way, then who's going to foot the $1M or $2M bill for you?