Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums

Re:Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums by rglullis on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:50AM (#22256896)

I don't want to keep repeating myself, but it seems you are either venting your frustration for feeling like you are not getting back what you put in (you probably aren't) or completely missing the point of what I was saying up-thread.

So, let me try different words: of course this redistribution is uneven. The point of socio-political programs is never to be "fair", no matter how much they say it is. So stop worrying about it.

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Re:Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums by codingmess on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:59PM (#22269424)

I don't understand what point you are trying to make.

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Re:Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums by rglullis on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:24PM (#22271118)

In which part of there is no point in trying to argue "fairness" in who-gets-what if "fairness" is not the point of the Welfare State am I losing you?

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Re:Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums by codingmess on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:06PM (#22272549)

Your original claim was that parents don't really get "Elterngeld", because they pay for it themselves in taxes.

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Re:Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums by rglullis on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:52PM (#22272831)

No. My comment was just an ironic way of saying that there is nothing "given" by and from the Government. Whatever is "given" is actually taken from someone else and redistributed. I thought that was clear already.

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Re:Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums by rglullis on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:04AM (#22275167)

to late to edit, but I meant "taken from everyone and redistributed"

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