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I respectfully disagree on the need to fund the military. How might we use the trillions of dollars spent on the military for education, healthcare, retirement and other betterment…

My original response was to highlight that perhaps we shouldn't be elevating child-raising as a completely altruistic, society-benefiting endeavor. We're talking about a few tech c…

I'm not advocating some "Children of Men" fictional dystopia. There will always be kids, maybe just not the white collar tech worker too worried about career progression. For examp…

Well said. It's a bit farcical that this discussion has degenerated into "I have kids for the better of society". Let's stick to the simpler rationale that some people have kids be…

There's risk in every major life decision, including having kids. I hope I'm not coming off as anti-children but while parents couldn't have anticipated the pandemic and its impact…

"Benefit society as a whole" sounds good in theory but rarely works in practice because people are inherently self-interested. A simple counterargument is that someone's kids may n…

The former. You promote objectively rather than subjectively. Parents may just need to adjust their own expectations/career trajectories and consider 2020 a "lost year" of sorts. T…

I wonder why tech companies aren't allowing the option to change from full-time (100%) to part-time (60%), while retaining all the benefits especially healthcare in the U.S. This c…