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How? You realize companies will have replaced employees who leave after a year, right? You can't just switch people's careers off and on again like that. What i
by origin_path 4y ago
How? You realize companies will have replaced employees who leave after a year, right? You can't just switch people's careers off and on again like that. What if they were self employed? Their company can easily have been destroyed, there's nothing for them to go back to.
- lapcat 4y agoThere are various ways to handle this. I arbitrarily chose 1 year, but it could be shorter. It's not clear whether it needs to be a full-time job or just a part-time job. After all, our elected officials tend to spend a lot of time fundraising and campaigning rather than legislating. We could require that companies give unpaid leave, while the citizen legislator gets paid a salary by the government. There would of course be hardship exceptions to postpone serving. As a society, we actually need to do more to make it the norm that people can temporarily switch their careers off and on again, for various reasons. Having a child is one crucial example.