RE: Something for nothing
September 13, 2021 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2021 at 11:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that it's career ending for a number of reasons. One..that stuff about kids yanks heartstrings..for sure, but also because it's a positively horrible idea on it's own merits.
There is no monetary incentive to reproduce. None. You don't make money by having kids, it's not a thing - and it's not even the purpose of those funds - which are to very explicitly address poverty. Kids are expensive...and, tbt, there's never any real number where you can say "ah, I know I can do this now". I have five, they don't make me a dime and never will.
Poverty exists, and maybe it's embarrassing, but it's a relevant fact of social welfare programs. Cutting those programs will not reduce poverty for the same reason that having fewer children will not address global warming. We already stop lower than your suggested number, by choice...and neither problem has been alleviated by that fact because they literally can't be. Increasing child subsidies and social welfare programs..in contrast, can demonstrably alleviate at least the one thing - and who knows..many hands make light work...wouldn't be the first time some poor kid who got a break from having been so foolish as to be born to poor parents solved the problems created by their betters.
There is no monetary incentive to reproduce. None. You don't make money by having kids, it's not a thing - and it's not even the purpose of those funds - which are to very explicitly address poverty. Kids are expensive...and, tbt, there's never any real number where you can say "ah, I know I can do this now". I have five, they don't make me a dime and never will.
Poverty exists, and maybe it's embarrassing, but it's a relevant fact of social welfare programs. Cutting those programs will not reduce poverty for the same reason that having fewer children will not address global warming. We already stop lower than your suggested number, by choice...and neither problem has been alleviated by that fact because they literally can't be. Increasing child subsidies and social welfare programs..in contrast, can demonstrably alleviate at least the one thing - and who knows..many hands make light work...wouldn't be the first time some poor kid who got a break from having been so foolish as to be born to poor parents solved the problems created by their betters.
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