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    23 小时前

    I was looking at the costs of raising a child the other day and I don’t know how anyone does it. My job pays garbage with trash health insurance.

    I’m just so mad at the management class with their high pay and not doing any actual work. My boss seems fine - I think he knows this is bullshit and goes a little out of his way to make it easier for me. But everyone above him? If I saw them drowning I’d have to think a long time before throwing a life vest.

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      20 小时前

      I could totally afford a child, but if I chose to do that, I wouldn’t be able to afford anything else fun, so I haven’t chosen to. By all means, I make a pretty decent living and would’ve probably been in the upper middle class 20 years ago.

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        I was in the top 2% financially in my country before I walked away from that life (the work I did was lucrative, but a brutal grind)

        At no point did money feature into the equation

        I just really don’t like kids.

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      They don’t want to make it more affordable to have children so that women are forced to drop out of the workforce to stay home and raise them.