Human oocytes are stored for later
use: columnist Reinhard
Mueller looks at the creepy side the latest fringe benefit being
offered to egg-bearing employees of Apple
and Facebook.
Employee Eggs
and the 'Cold' New World Order (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany)
"Have fun,
yes, but please no reproduction! Because then female employees wouldn't be
available for a few weeks. Therefore, now these generous brave new world corporations
are offering to pay to freeze the egg cells of their employees - so they remain
fully-functional as long as possible and give birth as late as possible. Even
if everyone calls it a fad just a friendly invitation from an employer to please
set aside the desire to have children, it makes East Germany's Family Policy seem
almost humane. The delusional sense of feasibility among corporations knows
no bounds, and it's no coincidence that the Internet giants are at the
forefront."
American Internet
giants offer their female employees cash to freeze their egg cells. In this
battle for talent they conjure the illusion of being masters of life. By
contrast, East Germany's 'Family policy' appears almost humane.
Work is the whole of life. Isnt that roughly what is written
in the Bible? If so, then the saviors of Apple and Facebook take those words
literally. One should feel right at home on the job. And there is no question
about it: it's better to sit in a pleasantly-lit loft in front of a monitor than
slave away underground. No one has to go home anymore, because it's all there:
all-inclusive catering, sporting facilities and lounges.
But beware: have fun, yes, but please no reproduction!
Because then female employees wouldn't be available for a few weeks. Therefore,
now these generous brave new world corporations are offering to pay to freeze
the egg cells of their employees - so they remain fully-functional as long as
possible and give birth as late as possible.
It may sound like even more liberty from the land of already
unlimited possibilities. Because the employer with this smart, broadminded offer
certainly expands the range of opportunity for young women and it's just an
offer. Yet the companies clearly express what they expect. Ultimately, most employees
are more or less dependent on them, so a good many will take them up on it for
the sake of their careers.
And even if everyone calls it a fad just a friendly
invitation from an employer to please set aside the desire to have children, it
makes East Germany's Familienpolitik
[Family Policy] seem almost humane. Indeed, East Germany's Socialist
Unity Party tried to gain comprehensive control over children and their education
at the earliest stage possible, and at the same time to prodded women to have
children as young as possible. And all in order to achieve its aim of turning
everyone into workers and peasants. But at least they did it the natural way.
Posted By Worldmeets.US
The delusional sense of feasibility among corporations knows
no bounds, and it's no coincidence that the Internet giants are at the
forefront. In the battle for the supposedly best talent, they conjure up the
illusion of being the masters of life - as if there were some guarantee of being
able to bring children into the world if one waits ten years. Life as a purchase. Why not do the same for the organs of
deserving employees in order to build up a stock of spare parts? It's no coincidence
that particularly women, and more and more men, refuse to participate in the "free
market" rat race. This will be one more instrument for meeting the quota [of government mandated female employees]. In our country, more worker bees are needed. It is growing
cold ...
