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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by jjeaff on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:29PM (#23969088)
To elaborate on the "no benefit" for the families, and Warren probably talks about this, but there is benefit for corporations. They get nearly double the supply of workers which drives down wages and gives them more productivity per dollar spent.

So in effect, a wealth transfer to equity holders.

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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by sukilot on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:41PM (#23969732)
It's bizarre that this, the largest factor by far, gets so little play.
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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by cma on Monday July 27, 2020 @06:18PM (#23970075)
Yep, it undermine's everything Peter Thiel said in his debate with Andresson and was amazing to me Andresson didn't bring it up. They were looking at wage stagnation over the period where women entered the workforce, but without ever mentioning it was the period where women entered the workforce en masse.
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Re:Google to keep employees home until summer 2021 by Dirlewanger on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @07:55AM (#23974766)
It's because it undermines the feminist narrative that women entering the workplace had 0 repercussions on society as whole.
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