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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by rayiner on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:58PM (#24414610)
> I suspect a fair number of the complainers are people with Democratic leanings, and I think I can describe their thought process to you.

> I think their problem is that a private company is doing this, not the Government.

Is that a Democratic take? I think it's a liberaltarian take on it. Here's the conservative libertarian response: raising children is one of the primary functions of society, and social norms that govern private actors make a certain amount of deference to that. Replacing those norms and kicking everything up to the government is a very statist solution, inviting the government into large swaths of human activity where it wasn't present before.

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by zajio1am on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @11:27PM (#24428614)
> Here's the conservative libertarian response

Seems to me more like plain conservative response. Libertarian position would be to protect individual liberty against both state and societal oppression. E.g. In 'On Liberty' J.S.Mill discussed mainly societal oppression (by social norms) as it is more prevasive and insidious than state oppression.

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by maxerickson on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:08PM (#24414701)
What's the conservative libertarian take on what to do when those norms are gone and haven't been replaced?
Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by sdenton4 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:30PM (#24414878)
Probably involves market solutions...

"Sister for sale! One sister for sale! One crying and spying young sister for sale!"

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by dcolkitt on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:11AM (#24417046)
It’s not a full answer to your question, but given a long enough timeframe the problem is self-correcting.

Sub-cultures with anti-natalist norms will find themselves subsumed by those that produce a lot of children. Simple math tells us that the typical American circa 2100 is a lot more likely to be descended from Utah Mormons than Bay Area rationalists.

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by taejo on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:43AM (#24419188)
> Simple math tells us that the typical American circa 2100 is a lot more likely to be descended from Utah Mormons than Bay Area rationalists.

Descended from today's Utah Mormons than today's Bay Area rationalists. That doesn't mean they won't move to the Bay Area and become rationalists themselves.

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by leetcrew on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @08:51PM (#24415454)
are they gone? isn't this thread about single facebook employees resenting the special accommodations their employer has granted to parents?
Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by rayiner on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:24PM (#24414850)
Reinstate the norm because we haven’t come up with a better idea and are unlikely to do so.
Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by maxerickson on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:55PM (#24415031)
Sure, the abstract answer is obvious. I meant the concrete answer, how do you reinstate a norm that people have stopped caring about, or that has been eroded by some policy (in the worst case, a policy championed by those that claim the norm)?
Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by betenoire on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:48PM (#24414982)
I assume you'd want to reinstate the norm with the same spirit wrt government involvement... How does that work?