Yeah but you and I don't have extremely rigid schedules that, if interrupted, can throw us off kilter for a whole week. I'm all for promoting healthier work/li

Yeah but you and I don't have extremely rigid schedules that, if interrupted, can throw us off kilter for a whole week. I'm all for promoting healthier work/life balances (4 weeks vacation, anyone?), but it's not like it's mutually exclusive. I'm also friends with a guy with 3 kids and I've seen the chaos that erupts when their routines get screwed with. I am broadly OK with subsidizing families. It's hard enough as it is? Suck it up, someone's gotta raise the new generation. If you choose to have kids, you too will get to dump shit work. If you don't choose to have kids you will have 2-3x the disposable income, so it's kind of win-win.