by Jeff Berwick
Dollar Vigilante
“Prole”
Released in June 2022, “Prole” is set in a dystopian world where workers who get pregnant are sent out of state to get an abortion encouraged, and bankrolled by their employers.
Abortion travel benefits.
Pretty dystopian, right?
But, of course, no office babies equal no maternity pay or 24-week productivity interruption, which is what Google is offering its life-giving laborers. (Birth parents at Airbnb and Microsoft are getting around 22 weeks of paid time off, 20 weeks at Amazon, 18 weeks at Uber, and around 17 weeks at Meta)
Let’s do some quick Jeff & Lucy air-math.