Message from @Undead Mockingbird

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2018-11-02 11:14:50 UTC  

Which workflow?

2018-11-02 11:14:56 UTC  

Patient care

2018-11-02 11:14:57 UTC  

a time when perhaps employees were valued, and offered incentives to actually stay

2018-11-02 11:14:59 UTC  

oh

2018-11-02 11:15:22 UTC  

now a days, after 2 years at a company most of the time, you are as high as you are going to get, you better move on.

2018-11-02 11:15:32 UTC  

Either way, I do not want to be forced by the state to do something that is not good for my company.

2018-11-02 11:15:34 UTC  

I'm a director equivalent leader for a health care system in the western US

2018-11-02 11:15:44 UTC  

If there are companies who want to hire person X out of compassion, you go ahead.

2018-11-02 11:15:52 UTC  

But there is no morality in spending the money of others.

2018-11-02 11:16:42 UTC  

depends on the company and depends on your age and the age of people in your field

2018-11-02 11:16:58 UTC  

once upon a time, you didn't eat if you were sick because you had to hunt for your dinner.

2018-11-02 11:17:14 UTC  

I'm glad we've progressed beyond that

2018-11-02 11:17:24 UTC  

It used to be if you had pneumonia you died

2018-11-02 11:17:39 UTC  

Yes, and I am, too, but society actually is completely aligned in its interestes.

2018-11-02 11:17:44 UTC  

And that women had a 1-in-5 change of dying in childbirth every time

2018-11-02 11:18:05 UTC  

If we just let a productive member of society die, instead of taking care of them while they are not productive, we lose an otherwise productive worker.

2018-11-02 11:19:25 UTC  

Sorry if that sounds so sterile or discompassionate.

2018-11-02 11:19:47 UTC  

Nahh

2018-11-02 11:19:49 UTC  

It's all good

2018-11-02 11:20:42 UTC  

I just recognise that the main reason women are still held back in the modern world is the "childbirth penalty"

2018-11-02 11:21:15 UTC  

Often times, we actually do more harm by choosing to be compassionate in the now then being objective. Resources will always be limited, and by helping one person now, inefficiently, we might have to let two people die in the future.

2018-11-02 11:21:16 UTC  

That's why women in general still struggle for parity

2018-11-02 11:21:28 UTC  

It's not some conspiracy

2018-11-02 11:21:38 UTC  

It's not overt prejudice against women

2018-11-02 11:22:00 UTC  

It's simply the calculation you describe

2018-11-02 11:22:20 UTC  

It's part of what gets me so upset about the migrant crisis: It's the childish view to only see the people you help immediately, but we still have homeless people, people who die in the streets. By being emotional about the now, we hurt other people who we do not consider, by being irrational about our choices. Every migrant we help from abroad might cost the life of other people elsewhere. Scarcity is a reality of humanity.

2018-11-02 11:22:35 UTC  

Why take on childbirth issues if you don't have to? And by the time women don't have kids anymore, the damage is long-since done.

2018-11-02 11:23:20 UTC  

Well, but you see: then we DO have an interest in women having children.

2018-11-02 11:23:28 UTC  

So, the proper question to ask is: who has that interest?

2018-11-02 11:23:44 UTC  

And this is what still fuels even rational women to align to the left. Why women vote blue in such a disproportionate manner.

2018-11-02 11:24:51 UTC  

Whoever has that interest, derives that benefit, should support women. That is what should be figured out to make it fair. If it is a general, intangible benefit, it might be hard to figure it out, but if we can figure out how much productivity our children provide in our society, then it is only fair for society to foot the bill for that.

2018-11-02 11:25:27 UTC  

If you plan to retire, you have an interest in either women having kids or ample immigration

2018-11-02 11:25:51 UTC  

Yes, and that is why families figured out these kinds of questions.

2018-11-02 11:26:03 UTC  

Who pays social security? You're not getting what you put into it. There's no lockbox. You are paid by the FICA taxes of current workers.

2018-11-02 11:26:38 UTC  

The ones who derived the benefit, absent of the welfare state and national debt, were families. You care for your child and your child later on cared for you. So you make the investment in your children.

2018-11-02 11:27:19 UTC  

Now, because we are all tied together through the welfare state, social security, etc. the burden is shifted from families to society at large, to the state, so that flow of value is much, much harder to figure out, in aggregate.

2018-11-02 11:28:09 UTC  

That is also how I see the destruction of families tied together with the state budding its nose into everything.

2018-11-02 11:29:11 UTC  

Now, the interest in children is not just for the family, but society at large, so society at large has to figure out a way to compensate women (or, more generally, parents) for the value they provide: children.

2018-11-02 11:30:39 UTC  

We're back to agreeing

2018-11-02 11:33:01 UTC  

dang

2018-11-02 11:33:08 UTC  

your name is silly