As a straight man who absolutely doesn’t want kids, I understand you. But raising a kid is a fuckton of work, and parents deserve a chance to do it right, so I’m not jealous. After all, my decision to not have children will probably save me loads of money. A tax cut here and there is just fair, if you ask me.

Large scale civil disobedience often worked quite well, too. But it has to be large-scale, so it cannot be player oft as “those selfish few need to be punished”.

Sadly, that only happens in extreme circumstances. Think end of WW1 Germany, where a large part of the soldiers and workers decided that enough is enough.

Central Europe here, i have never seen someone question taking paternity leave. Sure, especially the managers might complain behind their backs about workload or scheduling, but nobody questioned the decision.

You deserve this as much as you deserve the road you are driving on, or the tax return you get. You wouldn’t skip the tax return, right? So treat it like a nice little informal tax return.

Why marry her if you don’t like her that much? Like, seriously? I know there is the meme of “burnt-out husband spending weekends working overtime so he can avoid his wife”, but those are usually failing relationships.

Yup. Loyalty is a two way street. I know pretty successful companies whose former employees still speak highly of, precisely because the company did the whole “you work hard and we treat you well” thing. The moment that that trust is lost, your employees will treat you in kind. Except for some idiots falling for the propaganda of course.

If I may ask, what are the mainreasons people are homeless in the Netherlands? Mental illness? Drugs? Unwillingness to deal with “the system”?

Yup. I can do that.

Purely by feelings? Synthetik Biology. Super cool subject. Engineering, but your computers live. Sadly, anything Bio-related basically needs a PhD and top grades for a job. So I guess I’ll stick with the lightning imbued rocks for now.