[p2p-research] from a us intelligence briefing

[Tere Vadén]

a little bit under 1.8 in Finland

http://www.stm.fi/Resource.phx/publishing/documents/476/chapter2.htx

Michel Bauwens wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Michel Bauwens
>     <michelsub2004 at gmail.com <mailto: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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