I would like one of the people who advocate for declining population to offer an example of a place where declining population has turned out to be good.
I would like one of the people who advocate for declining population to offer an example of a place where declining population has turned out to be good.The birth rate is already below replacement in the United States. While that's arguably better for the environment, ask Russia, Japan etc how great that is for social structures.
Whether or not a company offers a benefit should be up to the company. Maybe by choice. Maybe by contract negotiations. It should NOT be required by law.
Ask again why shitty employers can’t find people who want to work for them... amazing that some just don’t get it.Whether or not a company offers a benefit should be up to the company. Maybe by choice. Maybe by contract negotiations. It should NOT be required by law.
Because I'm already at the top of the market. Most people can't afford my services, so they end up going to the illegal operators. Those guy's pay cash, no insurance, no OT, no license. If they weren't greedy as hell it would be impossible to compete with them.Why would it end your business? This makes no sense as your competitors would have to provide the same benefit.
I mean the entire world has this benefit so the idea that it would lead to some catastrophe is pretty self evidently silly.
Because I'm already at the top of the market. Most people can't afford my services, so they end up going to the illegal operators. Those guy's pay cash, no insurance, no OT, no license. If they weren't greedy as hell it would be impossible to compete with them.
Because I'm already at the top of the market. Most people can't afford my services, so they end up going to the illegal operators. Those guy's pay cash, no insurance, no OT, no license. If they weren't greedy as hell it would be impossible to compete with them.
So every worker safety law and a minimum wage should be abolished. Child labor back, put them in the coal mines. No weekends either. No vacation days. No sick days.Whether or not a company offers a benefit should be up to the company. Maybe by choice. Maybe by contract negotiations. It should NOT be required by law.
Allowing time off is one thing. Paying you to stay home and burp a kid is another.
Who does your job while you're out? Do they hire somebody else temporarily, raising costs by paying two people? Or do they offload your duties onto someone else, increasing their job load?
I worked construction nearly all my life. If you aren't on the job...you don't get paid. No paid vacation, no paid sick days, no paid holidays, no paid family leave...and if you're gone more than a day or two...the company might just call the union hall and get a replacement for you.
I never had a problem with that.
So instead of fixing your fucking problems with illegal operators you take it out on the employees? And this makes sense to you?
Reminds me of history lessons on how the nobility over here in Germany used to treat people.
Except Unions have been castrated by LAW for the past 30 or 40 years or so. Right to work yes.Whether or not a company offers a benefit should be up to the company. Maybe by choice. Maybe by contract negotiations. It should NOT be required by law.
Paying people to do not work is a bad idea. If you want Family leave, fine. Go use your PTO/Vacation time. You want to be paid to be off work and still retain all your other time off as well? Sorry, but you cant have your cake and eat it too.
Its those lazy socialists / democrats /etc., always looking to hook people on handouts.
We've had a shortage of trade workers for well as long as I can remember. This void has long been filled by illegal labor from abroad and not just Mexico...lots of Poles when I was in Chicago. Instead of increasing the legal supply of this labor through immigration and doing tighter regulation of employers we've just pushed it under the table, which is traditionally how America usually chooses to deal with policy problems.
So your issue isn’t with parental leave.Because I'm already at the top of the market. Most people can't afford my services, so they end up going to the illegal operators. Those guy's pay cash, no insurance, no OT, no license. If they weren't greedy as hell it would be impossible to compete with them.
The world obviously does. But that doesn't mean we should make it harder for professionals to have kids.We don't have an over-population problem.
Maybe we should ask like the entire rest of the planet that has figured this out and they can give us some pointers since we're so f'ing clueless.
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There is what capitalism and the consumer economy needs to maintain, and what the earth can actually support. At least without massive changes to how we live, farm, and deal with waste and resource usage.Population growth over the past 10 years is at its lowest since the great depression. We currently have insufficient population growth to sustain the population without immigration. So no, we don't.
no one defends the rich business owners quite like Americans, it's insane the lengths that people go to in order to justify it even with plenty of world wide examples of a better way
It's insane.no one defends the rich business owners quite like Americans, it's insane the lengths that people go to in order to justify it even with plenty of world wide examples of a better way
No, just the cost of it. Having a man off work for 12 weeks would cost me $24K.So your issue isn’t with parental leave.