Should have become a billionaire first. Rookie mistake.

Okay… yes, providing a “good life for children” is great.

But it won’t lead to higher birth rates. In fact, it’s correlated with the complete opposite.

I suppose one could make the case that the European social democracies, which have the most family-friendly policies, at least have higher birth rates than South Korea. But even with this reading of the data, it’s a marginal effect at best.

I make it a point of principle to never be dogmatic, and nothing can change my mind.

Hauptmetzger kritisiert Tierschlachtung bei Metzgern.

They are extremely important to drive innovation and hence growth and profit in capitalist systems.

Hence it’s not surprising that the most affluent capitalist systems make sure that education is universally accessible.

I think you already know the answer to your disingenuous question, which in any case has little to do with the willingness to host a trial.

They were held after the war ended, once the Nazis surrendered.

Obviously there can be no “Nuremberg-style” trials of Russian war criminals unless they actually lose the war, or after regime change in Russia.

When did you think the Nuremberg trials were held?

Rule 5, though quitting gambling is generally sound advice.

How about housing security? How about actively improving the lives of citizens, and ensuring their children are better off than they are? Giving them something to hope for rather than corporate dictatorship and ecological collapse?

Sounds great. But there’s not much reason to expect those things to lead to high birth rates.

“Positively correlated” means that if something is increased, something else is also increased.

Birth rates and poverty are positively correlated, meaning that higher birth rates and higher poverty tend to go together.

I say that because it’s true, and the USA has higher birth rates than most countries where your considerations are barely relevant at all. As it happens, the USA also has higher poverty rates, a more misogynist and patriarchal culture, and less access to family planning than these countries.

These things are negatively correlated with birth rates. The most strongly positively correlated are a misogynist, patriarchal culture, lack of access to family planning, and especially poverty.

I don’t know if there is a “legally defined work week.” The “average work week” is just the average hours worked by anyone performing paid labour, which includes part-time workers, who consist of about half the workforce.

The median employee in the Netherlands is just barely at the threshold of working full-time (defined as 35 hours or more). Few of those who work full-time cross 40 hours, and part-time can be well below 30; the average comes out to about 30.

Of those working part-time (less than 35 hours), about 12% would like to work more but has no suitable work available, so these are underemployed people working part-time.

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If this is what they want, it’s really not very well thought through. Employers can just pay the same amount for 40 hours (paying less for the initial 32 and more for the subsequent 8), and employees will have greater incentives to keep their working week at 40 instead of having more flexibility for work-life balance. This would discourage 32-hour work weeks except for those jobs where employers can easily hire more people to compensate for the 8-hour shortfall (and those jobs are very few in number).

In fact, in Europe it’s usually the opposite, where overtime is more heavily taxed, so both employers and employees have incentives to keep the work week within sensible hours. In addition, overtime tends to be restricted by collective wage agreements, which, in contrast to the USA, often apply to non-union members.

It’s somewhat similar to Germany, yes, though Germany has fewer part-time workers. In Germany (where I also live) the default options are 35 or 40 hours, though it’s becoming more common to have options to work less even in “full time” type of jobs.

Anyway, I doubt the “democratic socialists” in the USA want to ban working more than 32 hours, they just want people to have the same option people have in rich European countries.

Is it? The average work week in the Netherlands is 30 hours. That is the current status quo, not even what the “left-leaning” parties propose for the future.

Oh no! It’s… European centrist?! And a rogue Free Palestine with a steel chair from the corner!

“Citizen” (from “city”) has a similar origin, and used to refer to those living in a city in a way recognized by the city authorities, i.e. the burghers (bourgeois). In the early modern period, there was a caste system which included citizens, peasants, clergy and nobility, which little possibility for social mobility between castes. Eventually, the castes gradually disappeared and fused together in just a single “citizens” caste, albeit today with a new caste of “non-citizens.”