4. Defer to those driving manuals.
i'm all for paid mat/pat leaves but 3 years? that would be excessive even by scandinavian and canadian standards.
"The only one who did anything that can be set equal with money is the people who developed the product, as they work to earn money too, of course. But since they usually get paid a standard wage, we can leave this out for simplicity's sake."
See your argument is fundamentally flawed since you are forgetting the primary goal of capitalism: accumulation. By refusing to pay for both paid and unpaid labor you are keeping the capitalist from making any profit. On the surface this might seem good to you, but a capitalist needs capital to recapitalize, to put…