… How is income related to the number of children?
Do you get paid for being unfuckable?
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Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Money is about luck, nothing else. I have seven children…
lol okay
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Wealth generation is partially tied to your expenditure. Having 7 children will massively increase this over the course of your life. Additionally, parents may be forced to make financial sacrifices in their careers to better raise their children.
When you choose to have children, you are accepting that you may be limiting your ability to generate wealh. This is particularly true when you make this choice 7 times In a row.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I guarantee that every millionaire has more outgoing expenses without counting anything spent on their children than a large family does.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 months ago
The woman in the article is clearly not a millionaire. so I’m not sure what your point is here.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Sure whatever if you become a parasite but very, very, few people ever realistically get the choice to do so. Like long before you even have to decide between embracing evil and getting shares/property/whatever you need food, clothes, shelter, and medicine. It’s completely luck.
If you get that chance early, or if you are an heir or whatever to fortune kids are easy. If not kids are hard.
Having children is in no way related to the luckness of it.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 months ago
If you get that chance early, or if you are an heir or whatever to fortune kids are easy. If not kids are hard.
But the argument being made here is not about whether raising children is easy or difficult; it’s about whether “money is luck”. Your life choices affect how much money you have. That is a fundamental truth.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Luck does have a part to play, but so do the choices you make.
If you are not already wealthy, every time to you choose to have a child you erode your financial standing to some degree, that’s just a fact. Do this seven times and you are going to have some issues.
To compound matters, one or more of her kids have some kind of disability, and disabilities are not a cheap thing to manage in this country. I don’t know if it’s the first child or the last child, but unless it was the last I definitely would have stopped after that knowing the enormous amount of resources it would require to support the child.
To put her entire situation down to luck only really comes across as denying personal responsibility.
Whatever your starting point in life, every choice you make will move you closer to your goals or further away from them. The article no doubt is missing a lot of information, since the journalist failed to analyze the situation critically, but it really does seem a lot of choices were made that would have compounded financial problems.