[KellyCriterion]

you are right IN:

a) there is a lot of fun to do "outside there"

but you are MASSIVLY wrong in:

b) children are meaningful, they give you more than the consumption you can have - rent one month into brothel and you will see! ;-)

(source: father of twins, and nearly bankrupt regardless of my tech-job, nontheless my kids me more than our usual career-shit)