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TheHottub@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I live paycheck to paycheck on 150k/year. Every time I made more, more was needed for rent, medical, car maintenance, lemon cars breaking down, gas, 3 kids food… Right on the perfect path where every time I needed something I was in the perfect position to be fucked by high interest rates and not being able to make sound financial decisions before hand. Because I never started with money. I get so angry when people tell me “but you make good money.” But I have tons of debt from living on the edge for decades. I do absolutely nothing because I have no money left over at the end of each paycheck.
No idea where $610/month is going to come from. So again, yes I make “good money” but the path to get here has taken it all and is still taking.
Mdotaut801@lemmy.world 1 year ago
kungen@feddit.nu 1 year ago
While I agree with your sentiment, why should parenthood be something restricted to only those who are generationally wealthy?
Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Once of these things is wildly more expensive and entirely optional compared to the rest.
TheHottub@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Life finds a way. Do you want me to explain deeper into how a married man and woman living together end up making babies? To be fair. Our third was an accident and it was a hard decision to go through with it. Also, with each child a momentary boost or good news was had monetarily that would soon become moot.
And if starting out wealthy is all you seem to think should drive humans having children, consider how many people have fallen into poverty or are living paycheck to paycheck that would have otherwise not had children. The economy would collapse.
Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That statement is a criticism of the economy, not a justification for having kids anyways. It’s literally one of the main driving forces behind falling fertility rates.
Of course, we’re apparently going to try the handmaid’s tale before we ever consider that maybe making life easier and better for parents and children alike is the solution. Until that conservative wet dream happens, vasectomies are cheap, reliable if you can follow simple instructions, and not easily taken away by the party of “small government”