Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by jdm2212 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:56PM (#24413987)

1. Government subsidies don't cover anything close to the cost of raising a child.

2. Child-rearing is a thing tens of millions of people actually do interleaved with full-time work, and has to be addressed by high-level decision makers. There are lots of hypothetical things a specific individual might want to do that maybe have high social utility, and that's an interesting question for them to sort out with their manager and isn't really relevant to how parents are treated.

3. A stable population -- not growing -- requires a little over 2 children per woman, and the US fertility rate is waaaay below that right now.

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by leetcrew on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:42AM (#24420878)

there's no inherent need for a growing, or even stable, population. this is only a rough proxy for having a sufficiently productive working population to support those who can't work or have retired without undue hardship.

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