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Outside of economics, raising children is in society's interest. We need the next generation to grow up, become productive, and pay taxes. If a family elects to
by EPWN3D 2y ago
Outside of economics, raising children is in society's interest. We need the next generation to grow up, become productive, and pay taxes. If a family elects to have one parent stay home, that parent is doing valuable work for society and should be compensated. At the very least they should be eligible for unemployment for the first two years of a child's life. I don't care about the externalities.
- vouaobrasil 2y ago> We need the next generation to grow up, become productive, and pay taxes. I think it would be even better if the next generation grew up, became productive, and learned to contribute to society in new ways outside of just the obvious monetary one. Overall, we need more non-monetary contributions to be recognized.
- mgh95 2y agoYeah but then how do you pay for social benefits such as SSDI, medicare, medicaid, etc.?
- EPWN3D 2y agoI don't really have an opinion on that one way or another, but in modern society the current working generation pays for the last generation's retirement. We literally need the next generation to be productive and pay taxes. If they're too busy doing economically unproductive work, taxes on everyone who does work will go up and retirement benefits will go down.
- tmpz22 2y agoSFSU had to declare a financial emergency due to declining enrollment [1]. [1]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-state-declares-fiscal-emergency-19964419.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-state-declares-fis...