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>how much do you sacrifice to be able to live on roughly half your income ? Unless the person has a very high salary, the sacrifice is that they don't have kid

• hycaria 9y ago
  But why would anyone need expensive offspring that will experience the downfall of our planet (and have its share participating in draining the last ressources), let alone numerous copies of it ? All jokes aside, tbh I doubt that people start living frugal on half an income and then go on living paycheck to paycheck because of kids. Because living frugal often means questioning your decisions and I doubt the motivation for parenthood withstands this easily, and also because I guess one can be frugal in a familial setting too, if you have a partner who shares your interest. All the kids I see have way much more shit than their attention span could ever care for, parents want gardens even though it's expensive and unnecessary, buy new when they outgrow everything so fast anyways... They don't need all this stuff, exactly like we don't need most of it.