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I feel like people don't think half a step ahead.
The children that these parents are taking care of, will probably grow up and work. Their work will allow our retirement. People without children just don't provide the same utility to the society.
We need "young people" and if we are unwilling to invest in that, we won't have them. And then we all moan about lack of social safe nets and pension safety.
Billionaires are the problem and we need children for e.g. pensions.
The labour needs to be done.
People without children aren't the problem, or the enemy. But they can't expect the same treatment as people with children. As people with children provide more to society.
You aren't listening. The labour needs to be done. Who cares about money? When you are 80 yrs old, who will be your doctor? Who will work the fields for your food? Who will provide you any services? Any products? Anything?
You will need young people and they don't come from nowhere.
Agree, the children's utility to society isn't about money. It's about having doctors and firemen and farmers and artists. Idc how much money you have, if the next generation is smaller, who will be the CNAs in the retirement home where the childless (and others) are spending their pensions?
At the rate prices are going up I'll never be able to retire. So, fuck those kids.
It's a prisoners dilemma. The employer who accommodates parents won't reap the benefit themselves.
That is why it shouldn't be up to the employer. It is called rights.