Governor Whitmer Pushes for Paid Leave as Senate Bill 332 is introduced
Governor Whitmer Pushes for Paid Leave as Senate Bill 332 is introduced
Governor Gretchen Whitmer is prioritizing paid family and medical leave for Michigan residents, drawing inspiration from Minnesota.
If you want more people to have kids, make being a parent easier.
31And we don't even have to reinvent the wheel here. Most other Western countries have very efficient systems in place to provide these benefits and many other basic benefits. I'm sure much of that would be plug-n-play for the US with a few tweaks.
4Amen neighbor!
2Or! Here me out: make parentingharder so that the family grows up strong and self-sufficient and definitely not broken and pissed off at the world. We can start with nationalizing an abortion ban with no exceptions (and we'll overlook the incomprehensible harm it causes).
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Why does our population have to always be sharply growing forever? Isn't there enough humans? We are a plague that's starting to kill it's host already.
I haven't looked it up but these websites and programs are always funded by huge shitty companies as the rich loose money and power with population decline. We are not running out of people on this earth. We have taken over nearly all of it for us and our food. Would it really be so bad if there was 1 billion less people? Would climate change be better? Yep. Would there be more resources for everyone? Yep. Our over usage of water would be fixed. Simply having less of us would make so many things better.
Population decline needs to happen, it's foolish to think we can keep increasing forever.
11It's an interesting article, but I have the same concerns about this strange "Stop Population Decline" organization. Who is funding this?
5I could not find any fault with the site. Data presented appears to be well sourced.
1I don’t know, but what I do know is the writer really really dislikes Musk and other “pronatalists”
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Slow your roll, there, Thanos.
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I really don’t think so, considering this group has gone after Silicon Valley Billionaires
https://www.stoppopulationdecline.org/silicon-valley-pronatalists-against-wfh/
And constantly beat the drum that we need social spending
Also to get back to the article, are pro or against paid leave, considering the article is about the push for a Minnesota style paid leave system in Michigan
2Why does our population have to always be sharply growing forever?
Have you looked at population stats? Most developed countries, including US, have birth rates well below replacement value. In a few decades as the previous generation passes and population plateaus, we appear to be headed for a steep decline in population. And it won’t even help the human condition if developed countries with resources and space decline in population, while undeveloped countries with lesser economies, food, resources continge to get more crowded.
No one is looking for a”sharply growing” population, merely one that’s not “sharply decreasing”.
I draw paralleled to climate change of the last several decades where the data is there, the trends are there, the predictions of doom are there, but it’s not manifest yet. Just because we’re not yet suffering from
climate changepopulation drop, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Just like with climate change in the 1970’s, a few small corrections could make a huge difference in the long term trend. Do we really repeat the mistake of ignoring a clear long term trend until it becomes a crisis?0Many populations are in decrease but is that a bad thing? At our current population and consumption rate we would need over two earth's to sustain us. We're destroying rainforests for their land, our rivers are going dry because of agricultural usage, we have fished many parts of the ocean to a point of collapse. Imagine if we had to feed, cloth and house one billion less people. Yay. Would it be hard economically, yep, but we should still do it.
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