Fariness?
Thanks for input, tech_ed.
I suppose that if companies only want employees who have no kids, dogs or anything else that matters, who complain at length on line at a perceived possible future injustice, then they don't need to consider such perks.
That said, I agree on principle on the issue of fairness. Us "socialists" would like to think that part of our job as good citizens (should we make that choice) is to raise the citizens of the future, in good shape to continue building the country the way we would like it to be. And for that service, I don't think it is terribly unfair that someone compensate us in small part for providing the taxpayers that will pay your (and our) retirement benefits.
Now the question would be whether companies, or citizens in general should pay for that valuable service. And I would have thought that Americans in partticular, and the right wing in general (and I strangely and perhaps wrongly assume that you would be one or the other or both) would not want the government to have their hand in anything like this.
Of course the alternative would be to import people. What is your opinion on that?
