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.
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.
Nah, that’s crazy, I said cost would be towards the bottom of my list. Because there are a lot more, better reasons.
And then I said “number 1 would probably be something like “I would never forgive myself for bringing another life into this shitty world unsolicited”.”
You can enjoy life if you abandon empathy. I’m enjoying the best nightclubs but I walking past a bunch of malnourished and un housed individuals does bring something to think about the whole night
I don’t, because I don’t like being around people who jerk themselves off about how empathic they are for feeling bad for poor people on the street. Just like I don’t like folks who jerk themselves off about how amazing they are and who talk in absolute and hyperbole.
which is, a large percentage of the userbase here, for sure. according to like 40% of the users here, nobody has ever suffered as they have, and nobody is more empathic to the plight of the unfortunate as they are. and yeah, why the fuck would anyone want to be friends with those people… well probably other people like them so they can jerk each other off about how they use Linux and they’re saving the world from billionaires by doing so.
weirdly enough, my friends and I in the real world, volunteer in our communities and do shit that helps homeless folks. I’ve literally helped homeless people apply for jobs. But apparently that means i have no empathy, because I’d rather help folks directly than walk home from the bar drunk and feel bad for them… weird!
almost as if the cure to feeling sorry for yourself and that the world is shit… is going out there and improving it, and not being a whiny miserable cunt of a person who jerks themselves off about how great they are online, or at the bar. because there are plenty of folks like that at the bar too.
if you have so much money why do you think the world is so shit? legit question.
like, just go spend it and enjoy it.
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.
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.
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.
No, the other person said cost is not the highest on the list.
You’re the one crusading for it to be “not a reason”.
Nah, that’s crazy, I said cost would be towards the bottom of my list. Because there are a lot more, better reasons.
And then I said “number 1 would probably be something like “I would never forgive myself for bringing another life into this shitty world unsolicited”.”
So you can afford 2-3K a month or not?
“Having to clean the fork would be pretty far down the list of reasons why I don’t want to stab myself with a fork”
“Oh, you enjoy doing the dishes?”
Naw.
But even if I did, it wouldn’t move the needle much, because cost would be toward the bottom of my list of reasons not to have kids.
You can enjoy life if you abandon empathy. I’m enjoying the best nightclubs but I walking past a bunch of malnourished and un housed individuals does bring something to think about the whole night
feeling bad for homeless people isn’t empathy. it’s pity.
it’s really more about you stoking your own ego.
I bet you have a lot of friends.
I don’t, because I don’t like being around people who jerk themselves off about how empathic they are for feeling bad for poor people on the street. Just like I don’t like folks who jerk themselves off about how amazing they are and who talk in absolute and hyperbole.
which is, a large percentage of the userbase here, for sure. according to like 40% of the users here, nobody has ever suffered as they have, and nobody is more empathic to the plight of the unfortunate as they are. and yeah, why the fuck would anyone want to be friends with those people… well probably other people like them so they can jerk each other off about how they use Linux and they’re saving the world from billionaires by doing so.
weirdly enough, my friends and I in the real world, volunteer in our communities and do shit that helps homeless folks. I’ve literally helped homeless people apply for jobs. But apparently that means i have no empathy, because I’d rather help folks directly than walk home from the bar drunk and feel bad for them… weird!
almost as if the cure to feeling sorry for yourself and that the world is shit… is going out there and improving it, and not being a whiny miserable cunt of a person who jerks themselves off about how great they are online, or at the bar. because there are plenty of folks like that at the bar too.