• quarkquasar@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Well, if you could point out to me where I said I “have so much money”, that’d be great.

    Otherwise one of us is going to look like an idiot.

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      1 month ago

      if you can afford a child with minimal impact to your lifestyle, you are quite wealthy.

      childcare is like 2-3K a month, for that to not substantailly impact you, i would assume your take home is northwards of 10K+ a month, which means you’re making close to 200K+. which is often the income bracket at which having children is not a life-style altering choice.

      for most folks, having a kid is so expensive it completely alters their lifestyle because it removes like 30-50% of their income.

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          1 month ago

          implying children aren’t a financial burden implies you’re wealthy.

          the original post says ‘cost’ and the other person goes ‘cost isn’t a reason for me’.

          so i go ‘ok how much do you make that cost isn’t a reason for you?’ because the legit reason for the vast majority of folks, is the cost. they can’t afford kids, so they don’t have them.