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Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes by Domenic_S on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @12:42PM (#5820504)
What if the improved upbringing opens up more opportunities for the child -- in other countries? So now instead of an average taxpayer you get nothing at all?
Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes by Gravityloss on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @04:49PM (#5822025)
It certainly gives lots of job opportunities - for example in the USA. With finnish mediocre salaries and high tax rates, americans think young couples are crazy to return here to raise their families. Yet they do. Certainly they're not returning directly because of a cardboard box.

There are many places which extract some high value years from the workforce of some other country, for example I've heard that many educated german speaking young people go to work in Switzerland for a few years but ultimately return.

It's a bit unclear to me who wins here.

Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes by saraid216 on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @02:36PM (#5821288)
Obviously the opportunities afforded in your own country weren't sufficient and you should probably work on that rather than crippling children.