Posted Oct 3, 2019, 8:11 PM
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Unapologetic Occidental
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Province 2, Canadian Empire
Posts: 68,143
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Originally Posted by Londonee
Most upper middle class people DO understand the math? Do you think people who are upper middle class - highly educated, successful (travel "overseas" for vacation) - pop a kid out and say, "Damn, no one told me that this is expensive?" Everyone understands that. As others have said, most upper middle class people do a pretty good job of choosing *when* to have the child which is fundamentally a part of the calculation.
Having a child is an inexplicably amazing existential component of the human condition. From an opportunity cost, as an artist, not having children would in some strange way make me less complete. What's the price of that?
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You're not really supposed to say that on here, or even in 2019. But, yeah...
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