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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by nemo44x on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:35AM (#24419548)
I agree 100%. I never said it’s the total purpose of a life. There are infinitely many ways to find purpose. Not having kids (or having them) doesn’t make anyone’s life better or worse or necessarily have more or less purpose. That’s up to the individual.

Perhaps my language was too strong. I do believe it’s important we make accommodations (extra time off when having or adopting a child for both parents, accommodations during Covid and work from home, etc) that those of us (myself!) don’t get.

I feel like more and more society is penalizing people for having kids and I feel like that’s a sickness in a society.

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by RankingMember on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @11:13AM (#24421917)
> I feel like more and more society is penalizing people for having kids and I feel like that’s a sickness in a society.

How, though? Tax breaks haven't gone away and FMLA has been expanded. This, despite the fact that we're seeing the environmental impacts of rampant, unchecked population growth every day. If there's a sickness in society, maybe it's an inability to look in the mirror and say "hey, maybe we don't need humanity to occupy every square inch of the planet".

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