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Everyone says money is the reason other people won't have kids. When I ask them what % raise they'd need before they have one themselves, I tend to get either r
by missedthecue 2y ago
Everyone says money is the reason other people won't have kids. When I ask them what % raise they'd need before they have one themselves, I tend to get either ridiculous numbers ($500k a year!!!) or non-monetary reasons why they won't/can't have them.
More money makes life more easy, but I get the sense that money has little to do with birth rates. After all, the poorest people in your city, state, country, and planet are the ones having the most children.
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- taylodl 2y ago> After all, the poorest people in your city, state, country, and planet are the ones having the most children. That's because the poorest people are also the ones having the most sex, because sex is a cheap form of entertainment. Poor people are also the least able to afford birth control. More sex plus less birth control equals more children. No one, however, would argue that these children have the brightest future with the most opportunities ahead of them.
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoRight. Richer people have better stuff to do than have kids. Poor people are too uneducated and out of it to control how many kids they have. It's kind of like wondering why people don't want to fall into puddles. And you notice that poor people who walk to work in the rain are the ones falling into puddles the most. It's not about money. No one in history has ever had kids because they suddenly felt financially secure enough to. No one wants kids. Across the globe, when the standard of living rises, fertility goes down. Reproduction is a biological Ponzi scheme. When you're given an out, you take it.