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by yamtaddle
1172 days ago
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That's Fussellian upper-middle. Enough to send three kids to $70k/yr private boarding school and from there to an elite university, enough to have a sailing hobby, enough to take annual family ski trips in the Alps. But you're still working for a living, and can't retain a fancy lifestyle if you stop. |
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Personally, I’d say if you are a wage slave like me regardless of how much you earn, we can’t afford to have any children.
I can’t say you have not been warned. The signs have been there all along. Remember how much trouble HRC go in for just the title of the book, it takes a village. It is not your responsibility alone to make sure you have happy, healthy children who will become productive members of society later.
If you have zero income as soon as you stop working and waste your money on private school for your kids, I say it is in the same category as buying a yacht and a jet ski. Just incredibly dumb things you can’t afford. Can you imagine how much pain you will cause if you need to withdraw your kids from school if you have a stroke? Ffs stop sending kids to private schools!
We and our parents are getting older every day. How will we pay for our and our parents’ health care cost? I don’t have the courage to say just pull the plug if something happens to me and my end of life care costs more than USD 200k.
Don’t worry about the bigger picture of who will take care of society when we are older. Screw this society. In any case, can you really trust your kids to take care of you when you are old if you don’t have any savings of your own?