Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought'

• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You were scorning the mother for “wasting” money on having kids, but millionaires “waste” more money on their expenditure than having kids would do.

  Also, having 7 kids does not mean you can’t be a millionaire, as millionaires are statistically actually more likely to have more kids than average.

  Hatred of large families is largely manufactured by the media residue of hating on “Octomum” - a woman who had octuplets during the global recession of 2007-8 as a way of blaming the common folk for not having good sense (despite the fact it was a result of pure chance) and not because banks couldn’t stop themselves from doing multiple crimes every single day.

  Finally, Elon Musk has 11 kids.

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  • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Again, what is your point here? I was not “scorning the mother for wasting money on having kids”; I was mocking her inability to see her life choices as directly impacting her ability to obtain wealth. She claims “money is about luck, nothing else” but acknowledges herself that her decisions have affected her financial situation:

    I have seven children: two adults and five kids. We are a sole-income family. My children live with disability and my partner had to leave the workforce to provide full-time care for our kids. …because of my experience with poverty, having kids early, and with HECS debt, I’ve never had the opportunity to save.

    Whether incredibly wealthy people have multiple kids has no relevance to whether having any children, let alone 7, impacts your financial situation.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Having a disability is absolutely “luck” as is potentially having kids. No birth control is 100% effective.

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      • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can’t have a disabled child if you don’t choose to have a child in the first place.

        No birth control is 100% effective.

        Are you really pretending this woman accidentally found herself pregnant on 7 occasions? And that on each occasion, she accidentally had the child without ever making a choice to keep it instead of pursuing an abortion? And that nowhere, throughout any of these 7 births, was she ever in control of her life to the extent that she could have made choices that led her down an entirely different path?

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