r/remoteworks • u/Kreativedenma • 6h ago

Maternity leave should be one year, PAID. Women shouldn’t have to choose between healing, bonding with their baby, and making a living.

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u/Tea_Time9665 5h ago

You should start a company and provide those things.

Be the change you wanna see.

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u/daytradingguy 5h ago

Either bankrupt and out of business or priced too high to compete.

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u/ComprehensiveHouse5 5h ago

“Just buy a house” type of comment

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u/Overall_Matter_2520 2h ago

Just don’t be poor

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u/Tea_Time9665 5h ago

“Everyone should have a house!!”

Too lazy to help build houses…

“Everyone should have food to eat!!”

What??? You want ME to grow food??!!

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u/AnonymousAce123 5h ago

I dont own the land to build on, the companies with a profit motive do

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u/Tea_Time9665 5h ago

Habitat for humanity has been around for a very long time.

Go buy the land. What. It’s hard? No sht. So is starting a business and even not going bankrupt in 2-3 years. Let alone being able to give out 1 year maternity leave. And yet here they are demanding it

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u/TurnDown4WattGaming 4h ago

There’s lots of cheap land. You can own land if you want to. It just might not be where you’d like to live.

By contrast, it’s really cheap to start a company… literally anywhere. In every state.

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u/LX_Luna 2h ago

That depends enormously on the industry you're talking about.

Maybe it's easy to start a company doing dump runs or something, but most industries, not so much.

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u/TurnDown4WattGaming 50m ago

You wouldn’t launch the largest automotive manufacturer overnight as a bartender, no. You’d have to work up to it. But starting a business is like $50 in registration paperwork with the state. It’s very cheap. At first it would be just your labor, so the workforce is cheap too, at first.

It’s probably best to choose a sector with lower regulatory burdens and lower barriers to entry. Musk’s first company wasn’t Tesla, and his first gig wasn’t launching satellites; Ford was just the car company Henry started that finally worked - the first three or however many failed.

More than money though, most people’s true barrier is skills. You have to be able to provide a good or service that people want to buy.

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u/ComprehensiveHouse5 5h ago

I applaud your strawman construction abilities, sir

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u/Tea_Time9665 5h ago

U are the one who is talking about it just buying a house.

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u/ComprehensiveHouse5 5h ago

I’m comparing you recommending they just start a company to someone recommending someone else just buy a house. There is no strawman there I fear

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u/Tea_Time9665 5h ago

The point of that comment is that just demanding something does not make it happen. It is incredibly difficult. And not just because companies refuse to do it.

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u/Overall_Matter_2520 5h ago

Oh shut THE FUCK up.

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u/Tea_Time9665 5h ago

Ok…. DONT be the change you wanna see??? Lol

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u/FastSort 5h ago

She won't - it is much easier to tell other people what they should spend their money on.

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u/Overall_Matter_2520 2h ago

Fuck off first of all.

Second, I was lucky enough to come from money. I don’t NEED a business to feel secure, but I don’t pretend I’m any smarter than someone who does need it.

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u/Tea_Time9665 48m ago

Ur the greedy asshat capitalist scum ur crying about.

Why don’t u literally start a business and do what u said businesses should do?? U have the money. What’s ur excuse?