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I took the max (paid) paternity leave for both my kids and am confident that my subsequent promotions were as they should be: against the standards for the next level without regard to whether or not I took any type of leave along the way.

The purpose of thought experiments is to examine some situations without bringing irrelevant factors in. We don’t need to literally know the same Adam and Charlie in order to reason about what matters and what should be disregarded in a given situation.