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Give the state your kids and get to work, comrade? https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/17/archives/in-soviet-union-day-care-is-the-norm.html https://www.nytimes.co
by frumplestlatz 11mo ago
Give the state your kids and get to work, comrade?
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/17/archives/in-soviet-union-day-care-is-the-norm.html https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/17/archives/in-soviet-union-...
> The vast majority of Soviet families require the salary of a working wife to make ends meet. Repeatedly, Soviet citizens express astonishment when they learn that an American father can support a family of two, three or four children without his wife's working. Many are also surprised that American women would willingly have more than one child.
- venturecruelty 11mo agoMan, even the Soviet Union was able to provide free childcare. Really makes you think, doesn't it.
- frumplestlatz 11mo agoWe had it better. We threw that away. Instead of figuring out why and fixing that, you’d apparently prefer that we take a page from the soviets and further embed our social and economic regression into law.
- venturecruelty 11mo agoWe did figure it out: you give poor people money and services, and they stop being poor. This isn't magic, and your desire to endlessly hurt the people you hate will not change that.
- frumplestlatz 11mo agoThe nativity of thinking we can solve poverty by just giving people money and services, as if individual choices are totally incidental to individual outcomes. It must be oddly soothing to live in such a simple world of your own imagination, but that’s just not how people actually work. This isn’t magic, and your suicidal empathy for those you paint as systemically marginalized will never change that.
- bdangubic 11mo agoI personally prefer that 1/2 of my earnings go to funding department of war and corporate subsidies. fuck them kids and families :)