this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2025
439 points (98.2% liked)

World News

51315 readers
1837 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] raviiishing@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The solution is to pay workers enough so that the government doesn't need to shift the burden of paying for children to those who don't even have any.

As always, the money needs to come from the people at the top. As always, privatize the gains and socialize the losses.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That doesn't make any sense.

Paying workers more is fine, but you're saying that the costs for reproduction should come from parents, and then you're saying they should come from the rich. People without children should contribute to childcare costs, and they are incentivized to do so, too, because children are important to pretty much everything. By having the government fund childcare, the rich do contribute more.

Whatever you said is inconsistent.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I don't know, it makes a lot of sense, in an asinine way. Many people are self-centered and incredibly selfish. Of course we all benefit from living in a world where children are happy, fed, cared for, and well adjusted. But for folks without kids, it's usually indirect, rather than direct benefits, making it harder to quantify.

But, their property taxes that fund schools are easy to quantify, so the selfish get grumpy about it.

It's like not wanting your tax dollars to fund cancer research, because you don't have cancer. It makes no sense, until you remember the person talking is a selfish dunce.

load more comments (2 replies)