Comment by frumplestlatz

5 months ago

Give the state your kids and get to work, comrade?

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/12/17/archives/in-soviet-union-...

> The vast majority of Soviet families require the salary of a working wife to make ends meet. Repeatedly, Soviet citizens express astonishment when they learn that an American father can support a family of two, three or four children without his wife's working. Many are also surprised that American women would willingly have more than one child.

Man, even the Soviet Union was able to provide free childcare. Really makes you think, doesn't it.

  • We had it better. We threw that away.

    Instead of figuring out why and fixing that, you’d apparently prefer that we take a page from the soviets and further embed our social and economic regression into law.

    • We did figure it out: you give poor people money and services, and they stop being poor. This isn't magic, and your desire to endlessly hurt the people you hate will not change that.

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    • I personally prefer that 1/2 of my earnings go to funding department of war and corporate subsidies. fuck them kids and families :)