Comment on Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought'
Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 months agoYou 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?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
why is having kids wasting money, but a medical procedure such as abortion not a waste of money? what value is generated from the abortion?
trk@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I feel like you’re arguing for the sake of arguing. Nothing you’re saying makes sense beyond being contrite.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
no I’m arguing against the eugenics-basred thought-terminating cliche that “poor people are poor because they have children” which is a nonsense.
trk@aussie.zone 6 months ago
How is it nonsense? You have a certain earning potential. If you choose to have 7 children, you both limit your earning potential due to the time investment of breeding and the need to spread your available income over more dependants. This isn’t some class warfare shit. Rich people can afford to have more children because they’re rich. We don’t start on a level playing field. There are exceptions of course but they are exactly that - exceptions.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Firstly, I have never said children are a “waste” of money, I have only said that raising them impacts one’s financial situation.
As for how the two are different: an abortion is a standalone cost. A child is an ongoing cost lasting at least 18 years, quite possibly much longer if one aspires to be a supportive parent.