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People have silly cultural expectations about what is necessary to support children. I just saw a documentary about a Congolese truck driver with five kids. He
by FooBarBizBazz 5y ago
People have silly cultural expectations about what is necessary to support children. I just saw a documentary about a Congolese truck driver with five kids. He made $120/month, and his goal in life was to keep them fed -- literally. If I were willing to take the expectations surrounding that man, and adopt them for myself, I could easily support two dozen children.
- rdtwo 5y agoYeah that’s not how you build functional adult in modern society, but might be a successful formula for a army of child soldiers
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agohttp://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_arith.htm http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_arith.htm
- cinquemb 5y ago> Yeah that’s not how you build functional adult in modern society, I'm not quite sure anyone has a monopoly on a definition of what this could be, and very much subjective to various forms of "cultural hangups" that might be prevalent around the world at any given time.
- swiley 5y agoIt turns out rent in the west costs more than $120/month no matter how resourceful you are or how hard you work.
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agoAnd yet nobody leaves. Seems like a failure of imagination, to me.