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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I thought this was the most common opinion

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because it still puts men on top in most ways, even while it hurts them too.

And it definitely applies to all western societies.

You can see it in this very story. "Men are strong, they don't need help. Women are weak and emotional, that's why they need support." Yeah, it's devastating for men in this situation, but it's the same logic which makes people say men are natural leaders or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Very interesting, but I really struggle to believe that the diets of Germany and the Netherlands are that different, having lived in both of them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's got very little to do with my comment. Obviously, you (as in you personally) can eat whatever you please, but if you make biological claims about it you ought to back them up with evidence.

What does "as intended" mean? You mention bread and pasta in an earlier comment; do you understand that flour is also a processed ingredient? And that baking is a means of processing food? Oil can be as simple as just being squeezed out of whole seeds or fruit, that's no more processing than grinding, cooking, or peeling something.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There is absolutely no evidence that we "aren't very capable of processing" oil. Eating whole foods is good. Oil is fine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, the enterprise solution

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What about three weeks of extra annual leave, public holidays, real healthcare with no bullshit co-pays (and unlimited sick days, they don't count towards "pto"), a maximum 35 hour work week... Because that's more like what it would look like for a higher value job like that. Depends on the country and the job, of course. But in my case in the UK right now, and in my last job in Germany, my total "pto" in US terms has been roughly two months. (Which is a lot even here, but it's not by any means unheard of, and easy to get if it's a priority to you). Doing a job with an average salary of about 100k in the US, and I get paid a little over 50k £ for it, which is about 1.5 times the median salary here, so even after the recent inflation it affords a pretty comfortable lifestyle, it's enough money to pay the mortgage and take holidays to the continent in my ample time off.

Sorry, this turned into a bit of a rant, but tldr: it's not just "an extra week"