[jahaja]

In my country, Sweden, we have a very generous child welfare and parental leave. I have no children though. By your logic I should be envious and bitter? But I'm proud. It's called solidarity and having a healthy society benefits a childless me as well.

It's not tricky, and has been going on for the last fifty years or so just fine.

[aianus]

That's not the same as a minimum wage that is high enough for people to raise three children.

We were talking about wages, not state benefits.

State benefits are a much better way to address income inequality or poverty than minimum wages are.

[jahaja]

Well, if the businesses and corporations doesn't want to pay the taxes to fund it, they obviously have to fund it instead.