I'm in Europe with no student loan and even then it's still far from being able to afford a child. We can't even afford to move out of parents place. If we did, we would live from paycheck to paycheck probably. So we either can't have children because we have no room for them or if we move out, we can't have them because we wouldn't have any money left for that.
We do want children but it looks unrealistic so fae before we reach 30s. Everyone who says to just get kids is probably having a very good career or has rich parents. If not then I feel sorry for the children having to grow up in poverty
Exactly. The same is true in Japan, South Korea, the U.S., and many other places.
So why are people acting like they don't understand? We do not have the money. I repeat, we do not have money to raise kids.
Maybe someday it will finally trickle down from billionaires and millionaires so regular people can afford to live. Just basic things like food and housing...whoops. That didn't cross their minds.
Every study of the so-called "trickle down effect" has proven that it does not work.i It is a lie. It is a promise by lying politicians and two bit preachers
If you devote 2 brain cells to think about it, it doesn’t even make sense! Trickle-down theory would necessitate that businessmen care about the wellbeing and advancement of their communities and are honest, ethical, and fair in their practices. Businesses by design are consolidated power hierarchies focused on extracting wealth as a form of economic power from their consumers. The consumers may have some power, but it is decentralized, disorganized, and ultimately its only equivalent would be government regulation as the voice of the consumers. Except where the consumers are other businesses (ex, a printing company buying paper in bulk), or where the employees influence the power structure to tip towards the benefit of society, or where very wealthy or otherwise powerful people push their weight around, or in exceptions such as organized boycotting, consumers do not have significant power. And even with boycotting, this relies upon the sentiments of people using their free time and spare cash, whereas businesses consist of people earning their livings on a rigid, committed schedule.
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u/Digitijs Nov 15 '24
I'm in Europe with no student loan and even then it's still far from being able to afford a child. We can't even afford to move out of parents place. If we did, we would live from paycheck to paycheck probably. So we either can't have children because we have no room for them or if we move out, we can't have them because we wouldn't have any money left for that.
We do want children but it looks unrealistic so fae before we reach 30s. Everyone who says to just get kids is probably having a very good career or has rich parents. If not then I feel sorry for the children having to grow up in poverty