beaches of Egypt's Red Sea closed after shark attacks:
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10977445/Egypt-shark-attack-near-Hurghada-Austrian-pensioner-snorkeling-Red-Sea-told-partner.html
Second woman killed in shark attack in Egypt's Red Sea
Jul 03, 2022 • 5 minutes ago
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/disaster-pmn/second-woman-killed-in-shark-attack-in-egypts-red-sea
>tucker summed up in a meme.
What about the thought of having children makes these people so angry? Where does an attitude like that come from? Well, as it turns out, that attitude comes from the same place the Democratic Party now gets all of its attitudes, directly from corporate America.
Corporate America wants you childless and this is a big change.
A 100 years ago, big companies built housing for the families of their employees and then schools and libraries to educate them. It was the humane thing to do, but it also seemed to make good business sense at the time. If you wanted workers you could count on, you had to take care of them and their offspring, but over time, that arrangement got expensive.
Employees with families demanded higher wages to support their children, and in many cases, they formed unions to get those raises.
So, labor costs soared. So corporate America, in response to this, developed a new model: hire single women.
At many big companies, including in the traditionally male banking sector, young women now make up the majority of new employees and you can see why they do. They work hard, they're reliable. They tend to be loyal to the companies they work for. The one downside to hiring young women is they can get pregnant.
If you're running the H.R. department at Citibank, that is the last thing you want. Children make your health care plan more expensive. Worse than that, they tend to compete with an employee's attention. Responding to after work emails seems less pressing to most new moms than putting their own kids to bed.
That's a huge problem for big companies, so they have every incentive to prevent their workers from having children.
You can't say that out loud, of course. It would it be too obvious.
Give us the best years of your life and in exchange we'll pay you what's effectively a subsistence wage in whatever overpriced urban hellscape we're based in and then take from you the one thing that might give your existence meaning and joy in middle age, which is having children. That's the deal we're offering.
That is the deal they're offering, but they can't say that. It would sound like what it is, which is exploitation, no better than what the cotton mills once did to 14-year-old girls.
So, instead of saying that, which is the truth, corporate America uses the language of the social movement it created, feminism, to spin the entire arrangement as some sort of progressive liberation movement.
"Fight the patriarchy. Have an abortion. It's got nothing to do with lowering our labor costs, we promise." But of course, it does have everything to do with lowering their labor costs. Across the country they are making that case: abortion as liberation. Many of the biggest American companies are now paying female employees to have abortions, to end their pregnancies.
That would include Microsoft and Apple, Facebook, Yelp, Netflix, Comcast, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, JP Morgan, Nike, Starbucks, etc. Dick's Sporting Goods is offering female employees up to $4,000 if they get an abortion.
Does the company offer the same amount to female employees who want to have children? Well, the editors at Breitbart wondered that. They asked Dick's Sporting Goods that question, but the company didn't even respond and that tells you the answer.
What's amazing is that in the face of this, so many Americans who ought to know better have fallen for it so some accountant at a soulless, publicly traded corporation concludes that drones with no personal lives make cheaper workers.
That's what happened, but rather than question this or resist it, your average college-educated NPR listener nods in vigorous bovine agreement and then becomes completely hysterical when someone suggests that maybe there's another way to live, that it's at least theoretically possible that raising your own children might be more rewarding as a life choice than commuting into a slum on public transportation in order to claw your way up to middle management at Deutsche Bank, but the very thought of that, of turning down Deutsche Bank to bring new life into the world drives these people into a frenzy of rage.