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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/47744183

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Speaking at a supervisory board meeting at the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) on Wednesday, Putin said companies should call on staff to “build bigger, multi-child families.”

He noted that the number of employee children under age six would be taken into account in the recently approved Corporate Social Capital Standard (SOKB), an adapted set of international business practices that describes itself as a system on which “the future of the country” rests.

The Economic Development Ministry has said the SOKB will assess a company’s real impact on public well-being and determine how much government support they receive.

Its 95 indicators include the number of children per employee, the share of employees with multiple children, the share of employees who are married and the number of war veterans employed, as well as company spending on programs to support families and the promotion of “traditional Russian spiritual, moral, cultural and historical values.”

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[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 34 points 1 month ago

More meat for the meat grinder

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

He needs to replace all those killed in Ukraine.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised ANYONE is bringing kids into this world.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

yea, lets force more innocent lives to inherit a toxic wasteland hellscape planet

someone's got to solve the whole microplastic/PFA/climate disaster/etc

it sure as shit ain't gonna be us

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Putin is old and might forget some child-growing-related stuff, so remind him that children should be fed(not once or twice, but for decades). A pair of pants wouldn't hurt too. And all this isn't free.