Interesting Links for 01-11-2024

[andrewducker]

1. What should you call little people?

(tags:Language size humans video )

2. Some detail on the cap on inheritance tax on farms

(tags:death tax UK farming )

3. Russia fines Google more than entire world's GDP

(tags:google russia money )

4. Sugar in first 1,000 days linked to poor health in later years (35% different in diabetes, 20% difference in high blood pressure)

(tags:sugar health children )

5. "Women are going on baby strike - but don't worry, I'm here to negotiate terms"

(tags:society children )

6. "BookWyrm is the Federated GoodReads Replacement I Didn't Know I Needed"

(tags:books advice )

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

5) I found this article horrible. It's not humans' duty to make children to "save" this world or a country's economy. This article also does a find job of ignoring how child's care is still largely left to women and why that may be a reason for not wanting (more) children. It also ignores other reasons for not having children such as not being able to afford their care or not wanting to have children in a world that is seen as doomed, which is a growing concern.

[magedragonfire]

Hear, hear!

The article talks a little bit about South Korea and its efforts to get people to have more kids, but doesn't even bring up that the problem is, largely, misogyny. Men are often horrible to their wives, the wives' in-laws are often horrible to the wives, and if they get pregnant, women are frequently pushed out of their jobs or point-blank expected to quit, and the social cost of not doing so is incredibly high. I've known this was a thing for at least twenty years, from talking to classmates who came over to study in Vancouver, and according to internet friends the problem's only intensified since.

Besides that, for me, pregnancy was the worst experience of my life, and the nearly three years since has been incredibly isolating and mind-numbing. I've had one; I'm done. Talk to me when artificial wombs and better break options are a thing.

[ninetydegrees]

It sounds very similar to what I knew of Japan. Most women can only work part-time or temps jobs, are underpaid, can't have the same jobs as men, are expected to take care of the household and kids, and many have to face harrassment when they come back from maternity leave (in a patriarcal misogynist system where men are expected to work all the time and socialize after work whether they like it or not). I don't know how single-parent households are seen but considering unmarried older women are ostracized I can't imagine it's anything good.

I'm sorry you've had such a terrible experience. I wish our society stopped idolizing pregnancy and parenthood.

[simont]

#3: if they were going to do that, you wonder why they didn't take the opportunity to make it a googol!

[andrewducker]

That is an *excellent* point!

Global Wyrming

[hairyears]

Anyone else looking into Bookwyrm? This looks like a step in the right direction for social media!