LogFAQs > #928823020

It never was and never could be sustainable to raise a family on a high-school dropout's pay. That's just ridiculous and an impossible version of reality. And if that's how you measure whether or not the economy is good, then the problem is with your measurement. The median household income in the states is more than enough to thrive and have a family, unless you're going to overspend on shit.

I already linked this earlier but it's worth looking at again. It's the median income by age group.

https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/median-salary-by-age/

If you're earning around $62,000 during those prime child-bearing years, you should certainly be able to afford a family. If you are not earning enough to responsibly raise children, don't have children until you do. If that means that it will never have children, so be it. There are enough people on the planet and the global population is still rising.

The idea that we should dispense with common sense and basic math just because you think high school dropouts back in the day were magically able to afford the American standard of living on a single income is ridiculous. When was such a fairy tale possible? For how long? How much more inflated is the American standard of living now compared to then?

Contraception is a thing. Have children responsibly, without forcing others to pay for them, or don't have them at all imo.

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