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The hustle that is parenthood
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I know of jobs where people with kids get to choose assignments more regularly if there's travel involved because they have kids and because the managers have kids. Like, you no kid person, hit the road next week. I mean I get it, but it is discriminatory.
Raising a kid is work. If one of your co-workers had a random second job they had to keep and it paid nothing, how would your treat them?
"Raising a kid is work" Its also voluntary lol. You dont get to have sympathy for a decision.
I mean somewhat a generalization. Still if you don't want to empathize with the parent you still should empathize with the kid, you can't just like leave the kid there unless you want to argue the kid should be taken away from this person which just feels cruel for both sides.
although that probs works with everyone having flexible hours which... I don't think would even decrease profit too much? This seems more like a problem with the bosses anyways.
They chose to get that job. I did not choose to get discriminated against for not choosing that job.
Well you can bitch and moan all you want about breeders but the fact remains that their offspring will finance society as you age.
I am a parent myself and I see reproduction as the most egotistical thing you can do. At the same time those who do not are more or less leeches from a societal perspective.
I the end we are all free to chose paths but stop complaining about the choices others have made. Yours do not make you superior.
Leeches? You're kidding right? I pay into the taxes which fund your child's schools, WIC, libraries, Medicare and all of the other things which children benefit from, that I do not, because I do NOT have children. I'm the opposite of a leech, I contribute more and use less than most parents. You need people like me contributing monetarily, socially, and culturally and not using all of the services to make it all work. I'm not going to shit on people who have kids, because as you said we all make choices, but don't for a second think you're somehow superior because you made a different choice than me.
Wow. I guess I missed the part where people without kids don't have to pay taxes and just get free retirement...
That is quite an assumption
They being people who breed
You read didn't that right.
You conflate work and responsibilities. everyone has the latter, and the schedule juggling that comes with it.
I would treat them like a fucking idiot, because that is a terrible decision to have made... Your analogy really sucks here. I don't think coworkers with kids are complete fucking idiots, but the hypothetical person in your comment is a complete fucking idiot.