[quote] (12-08-2016 02:42 PM)General Stalin Wrote:
[quote='Atlanta Man' pid='1460111' dateline='1481225087']
This is a fallacy. It's a very typical white-middle-class-Western trend to think raising children is a huge financial undertaking. Poor people can have a brood of kids and still afford to put food in their faces, clothes on their backs, and a roof on their heads. You trying to tell me a couple of middle class SWIPL's bringing in a combined income of $100k+ can't afford diapers and baby food?
The reason is because middle-class white Westerners are rampant consumers and are programmed to think that they need to buy all the latest and greatest high-tech expensive shit for their children. Tons of awesome expensive toys, fun family vacations, super premium high-priced diapers, gluten-free non-GMO locally sourced organic baby food, the super-mega-Titan-G3-twinturbo- all-terrain baby stroller with matching track suit so mom (dad) can jog with the baby and the dog in the morning. Private schools, a new car, etc.
You can raise a child for very little money. Lower income families who pump out kid after kid are proof of that. Hell even if you want to make the "American welfare family" argument, look at poor countries. Third world poverty stricken places have some of the highest birthrates on the planet with little to no government aid available. They feed their kids with breast milk rice and grain, and make their own reusable diapers and clothes.
All a kid needs to grow happy and healthy in this world is food, education, and love. Food is incredibly affordable in America if you stay away from overpriced marked up bullshit Wholefoods-type products, public education is already paid for by tax dollars, and love is free and inherent.[/quote]
I respectfully disagree. I am not raising my children in a ghetto and they are not going to a shitty school. I have seen what happens when people just have kids in a shitty neighborhood with shitty schools. My children are going to be born into an upper middle class environment with no crime and plenty of opportunity.
You have complete control over your children until about 11 years old, then the environment they are in will have a profound effect on how they grow up. Lower class neighborhoods in Atlanta and Miami(I will likely end up in one of these two cites suburbs due to my current professional connections) are violent, and crime ridden.
My parents planned to ensure that me and my siblings were well educated and in a good neighborhood and we all turned out well. I have other relatives that opted to buy a cheaper house in a shitty part of town, with shitty schools and their children paid the price. My children are going to be my priority and I am going to be ruthless in my pursuit of providing them the best opportunity I can.
A decent house in Atlanta in Buckhead is $750,000. That is so your Public School is not a prison pipeline, and your neighborhood is full of professionals. I am paying cash for college , no student loans. I am taking my children on vacations, and my son is going on hunting trips -just like my father did with me. I am going to keep my kids financially covered until they finish Professional School and if I can I will have a Major Medical Practice or Consulting firm with my last name on it for them to Join and one day take over when they finish their education.
My Profession dictates that I must live in or near a major city, there are no Biotech firms in Oklahoma. I also have to be present for networking, I cannot live in Montana and telework.
[quote='Atlanta Man' pid='1460111' dateline='1481225087']
This is a fallacy. It's a very typical white-middle-class-Western trend to think raising children is a huge financial undertaking. Poor people can have a brood of kids and still afford to put food in their faces, clothes on their backs, and a roof on their heads. You trying to tell me a couple of middle class SWIPL's bringing in a combined income of $100k+ can't afford diapers and baby food?
The reason is because middle-class white Westerners are rampant consumers and are programmed to think that they need to buy all the latest and greatest high-tech expensive shit for their children. Tons of awesome expensive toys, fun family vacations, super premium high-priced diapers, gluten-free non-GMO locally sourced organic baby food, the super-mega-Titan-G3-twinturbo- all-terrain baby stroller with matching track suit so mom (dad) can jog with the baby and the dog in the morning. Private schools, a new car, etc.
You can raise a child for very little money. Lower income families who pump out kid after kid are proof of that. Hell even if you want to make the "American welfare family" argument, look at poor countries. Third world poverty stricken places have some of the highest birthrates on the planet with little to no government aid available. They feed their kids with breast milk rice and grain, and make their own reusable diapers and clothes.
All a kid needs to grow happy and healthy in this world is food, education, and love. Food is incredibly affordable in America if you stay away from overpriced marked up bullshit Wholefoods-type products, public education is already paid for by tax dollars, and love is free and inherent.[/quote]
I respectfully disagree. I am not raising my children in a ghetto and they are not going to a shitty school. I have seen what happens when people just have kids in a shitty neighborhood with shitty schools. My children are going to be born into an upper middle class environment with no crime and plenty of opportunity.
You have complete control over your children until about 11 years old, then the environment they are in will have a profound effect on how they grow up. Lower class neighborhoods in Atlanta and Miami(I will likely end up in one of these two cites suburbs due to my current professional connections) are violent, and crime ridden.
My parents planned to ensure that me and my siblings were well educated and in a good neighborhood and we all turned out well. I have other relatives that opted to buy a cheaper house in a shitty part of town, with shitty schools and their children paid the price. My children are going to be my priority and I am going to be ruthless in my pursuit of providing them the best opportunity I can.
A decent house in Atlanta in Buckhead is $750,000. That is so your Public School is not a prison pipeline, and your neighborhood is full of professionals. I am paying cash for college , no student loans. I am taking my children on vacations, and my son is going on hunting trips -just like my father did with me. I am going to keep my kids financially covered until they finish Professional School and if I can I will have a Major Medical Practice or Consulting firm with my last name on it for them to Join and one day take over when they finish their education.
My Profession dictates that I must live in or near a major city, there are no Biotech firms in Oklahoma. I also have to be present for networking, I cannot live in Montana and telework.
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