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China to cover all out-of-pocket childbirth expenses (www.semafor.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/world@lemmy.world
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[+] -6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The solution is to pay workers enough so that the government doesn't need to shift the burden of paying for children to those who don't even have any.

As always, the money needs to come from the people at the top. As always, privatize the gains and socialize the losses.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That doesn't make any sense.

    Paying workers more is fine, but you're saying that the costs for reproduction should come from parents, and then you're saying they should come from the rich. People without children should contribute to childcare costs, and they are incentivized to do so, too, because children are important to pretty much everything. By having the government fund childcare, the rich do contribute more.

    Whatever you said is inconsistent.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I don't know, it makes a lot of sense, in an asinine way. Many people are self-centered and incredibly selfish. Of course we all benefit from living in a world where children are happy, fed, cared for, and well adjusted. But for folks without kids, it's usually indirect, rather than direct benefits, making it harder to quantify.

    But, their property taxes that fund schools are easy to quantify, so the selfish get grumpy about it.

    It's like not wanting your tax dollars to fund cancer research, because you don't have cancer. It makes no sense, until you remember the person talking is a selfish dunce.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Everyone has been born so everyone should have had a free birth. I do agree that workers need better pay but certain expenses should be handled by the government only. It's not gonna properly optimize itself by supply and demand when we as a society benefit in more children.

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