Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers??

DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ur_ONLEY_freind@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t worry when they get desperate enough they’ll make condoms illegal

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• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nice humblebrag I guess, I’m beginning to forget what eggs even taste like

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• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The math has changed.

  100 years ago, you’d get kids so you can afford eggs.

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  • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, they child labor laws came and ruined that for everyone.

    But don’t worry, soon those too will be a thing of the past!

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This, but also retirement being a thing.

      100 years ago, kids were much less of an investment than today (they’d start pulling their own financial weight at like age 6-12, not at age 20-30 like today) and they’d be the only thing making the difference between being able to retire to one of your kids’ home or the poor house.

      Nowadays kids take much more money and time to get ready, and if you have no kids you can still retire and have your retirement financed by other peoples’ kids. And then you even get to keep all the money you would have spent on getting your kids ready for the world, and you can spend it on yourself.

      Financially speaking, having kids used to be a necessity and now it’s a pretty bad choice.

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      • Patches@ttrpg.network ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        if you have no kids you can still retire and have your retirement financed by other peoples’ kids.

        Don’t worry. They are working on getting rid of this.

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