[p2p-research] from a us intelligence briefing

[Michel Bauwens]

Does anyone know anything about birth rates in scandinavian countries, how
much does such welfare affect decisions to have children?

Michel

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi>
wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >  - does capitalist society even gives a choice as to what life path
> >  needs to be taken? many women (and men) would like to stay home a few
> >  years to take care of the children, but cannot
>
> Ah, I recommend reading
>
> Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen. The Information Society and the
> Welfare State: The Finnish Model (2002)
>
> ...coupled with a subsequent relocation to Finland of course :-)
>
> My newborn sons mother is at the start of a (up to) 3 year paid
> maternity leave. (Which can of course be extended by the simple method
> of having more children.)
>
> And personally I'm enjoying my decision to work for a distributed
> company such a Sun (former MySQL), where I spend 99% of my days
> working from home office. So I'm working, but with my family.
>
>
> There are various shades to capitalism and Himanen & Castells argue
> Finland is an example of having the best of both worlds.
>
> henrik
>
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>



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