Simpler solution. Let people make arrangements they want.
(I'd personally guess that culture and corruption have more to do with the large economic differences between Sweden and Hungary than taxation or parental-leave policies do, so I think he's barking up the wrong tree.)
Then again you have the legal right to take 25 days of vacation per year, but not all of these have to be paid.
Or perhaps Sweden has a strong enough economy to compensate for the harms caused by this policy, but Hungary does not.
Billion-dollar companies don't have to worry about it nearly as much as tiny ten-man ventures.
Culture/location/talent/vc $ is what makes a company though and to some extent trumps unfavorable tax/labor laws, this is IMO why SV & California have most of the startups as compared to Arizona/Texas or why Scandinavia>Eastern Europe.
for example, in hard times, or to pay debts, allow to sell oneself into lifetime slavery.
The owner of a 100/1000/10000 people company has much more power than the employee in need of work negotiating his salary/working conditions.
Not everyone is a "rock star" employee that managers are bending over backwards to accommodate.
That doesn't mean that the rest of the hundreds of millions of workers have to work with whatever conditions they can arrange for themselves. If managers could have their way, everybody would be working 18/7 for substinence salary. A society has to make laws to protect the public from that.
Politics used to mean: "a way to protect the common folk from bigger powers".