if this ends up costing the companies then no other companies are going to try doing this again. so this is why the free market is such a great thing. if it does cost them a lot, the problem is, if the government writes a law, it costs all of us a lot and they blame it that s a great point. a guy who has a minimum wage of $70,000 a year and watches his whole company yes, ma implode. they know people won t take advantage of it, we value career and moving along and advancing ourselves over family. it makes them look good and they wouldn t lose money because people won t take advantage of it. you seem like a guy who would take maternity leave after getting a puppy. i got to make a baby. i got to make one soon. this is great because we re all pro family. yes, we are. maybe this is a way for netflix trying to get us to repopulate. maybe this is their grand