Parental Leave is ridiculous. It's much better to have a thriving job market where people make enough money to save for their own break and can find a new job after. If someone leaves for a year, do you fire them or the replacement when they come back?https://qz.com/work/1541822/the-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-is-backtracking-on-year-long-parental-leaves/ …
Creates weird incentives for both employers (who benefit from hiring the forever-childless) & employees (who might be better off just taking a child-rearing hiatus, but have a hard time leaving money on the table). It’s also just weird to put any of this on employers.
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Yeah exactly. I think a lot of *real* social security is about having a wealth-producing society, low cost of living, large demand for labor, good information on which skills are actually useful, and programs like
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A real society is a society that puts materialism in the second place, not the first. The problem with the obsession of the global market is the factual absence of jobs for everyone, and the root of enslavement.
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tbh I think this may partially explain why newer companies (with more leverage over team culture than old behemoths) do so much stupid "fun" stuff. Wednesday morning yoga! Pub night on Fridays! Off-sites in Hawaii! It turns "we want childless people" into a matter of culture fit.
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I think this is a special case of benefits in general. In almost all cases, I would prefer to receive a fair cash value of a benefit than the benefit itself. Then I can pay for X if I want X. Benefits mostly rest on paternalism and cognitive manipulation.
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