Ein absoluter Rückschritt. Beim Elterngeld geht es sehr stark um Gleichstellung beider Elternteile, so dass eben der Verdienst des einzelnen Elternteils nicht ausschlaggebend ist bei der Entscheidung, wer die Pause macht, um sich um das Kind zu kümmern. Stattdessen könnte man sicher Geld sparen indem man das Ehegattensplitting endlich abschafft.
One big difference I see, between email and various messengers on the on side and social networks on the other side is, that emails are me pushing my information at people while a social network is supposed to be them pulling information from my feed. This allows me—when it works—to share stuff with people instead of potentially sending spam. Not all communication is a digital postcard. Social networks allowed a new form of communication. I enjoyed OG facebook until the first big privacy scandal. It was a (mostly) good thing and it was very accessible even then. I‘ve never got such a large part of my tribe on a pull service since then. Sure we all have messengers and groups and what not… but it is not the same. I dream of self-hosting something from the fediverse but we‘re not exactly young anymore and I doubt my tribe will assemble.