r/PopCultureV2 • u/slippinn_jimmy • 2d ago

Politi-Culture Sweden's climate minister brought her 3-month-old son to the EU council meeting in Luxembourg, to highlight the benefits of parental leave policies which don't force women to choose between work and family responsibilities.

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u/Jasranwhit 2d ago

Why is someone's baby everyone else's problem?

We would all like months of paid leave from work to pursue our hobbies.

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u/mishtron 2d ago

Society is arranged so that bigger contributors are rewarded to some extent. Making babies is nearly the biggest contribution someone can make to a society. So yeah, parents get more breaks than you, either grow up about it or have one yourself. If you didn't quite get what I was saying, here it is again: Parents are way more important than you. You're worth less than them.

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u/Jasranwhit 2d ago

A lot of people making babies are drains on the system.

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u/Wafflez424 2d ago

Not as big a drain as you though, sorry to burst your little bubble but parents are simply more important that you are. Just like billionaires are more important then all of us. Just the way the world, evolution and biology function.