Everybody knows what needs to be done. Parenthood needs to be sustainable for the parents. There’s just no political will to implement a policy that will only start paying off in 20+ years. Every politician kicks the can down the road, or implements half-hearted policies.

Edit: Just realised I posted this to the wrong instance comm 😅

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t that a bit like argueing that a bathtub needs to increase in size every time you take a bath, as you add water?

    In other words, it’s ignoring a whole part of the bath: the drain.

    In the same way it’s ignoring a whole part of capitalism: bankrupcies and other forms of debt foregiveness. As some businesses become irrelevant, and as new ones are started.

      • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Bankruptcy is a mostly a risk for small and nascent businesse

        That’s untrue? The big ones also go bankrupt. It’s a risk shared by every company, to keep adapting as the world changes.

        Even the VOC, at a point the largest company in the world with more assets than most countries, folded.

          • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            And bigger companies are clearly in a better position to adapt to changes than smaller ones, so your argument is only reinforcing my point.

            How so? The replacement rate is shorter than in recorded history (1)

            It seems that the older corporations had a very hard time adapting to new technology, to the point that they’ve been replaced by new smaller ones that outpaced them in only 30 years?

            And it didn’t simply go “bankrupt”, it lost a literal war against the United Kingdom (the fourth Anglo-Dutch War).

            It also went bankrupt.

            *Note: around 1670 the VOC had 50k workers

            Of course you have to place it in historixal context: both in world population and in respect to other contemporary companies.

              • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Your link does not show that, it does not even compare smaller vs. bigger businesses

                It does, even if you fail to see it. In only 30 years, those small garage sized startups outpaced century old megacorporations.

                According to the logic: “Larger companies can better adapt, has more capital, can survive temporary losses, etc”, that should not be possible. We should be conversing on ExxonBook. Yet the examples are right there.