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re: Americans Say They Need to Earn $128,000 to Feel Financially OK.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 11:22 am to BlueShield
Posted on 1/19/22 at 11:22 am to BlueShield
ehh half that in louisiana and you can have some land and buy a new vehcile every decade.
thats way better than a lot of the world.
thats way better than a lot of the world.
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Posted on 1/19/22 at 11:25 am to Tarps99
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What are you buying for 500 a month in a car with insurance and maintenance now?
What maintenance you doing on a new vehicle?
Most can go 10-15k on a oil change now, so you change your oil once a year? which can be done cheaply depending on where you go or do it yourself.
All the other costs should be covered by the warranty.
New tires anywhere between 50-100k miles. so change you tires once in 10 Years?
This post was edited on 1/19/22 at 11:28 am
Posted on 1/19/22 at 11:31 am to BK Lounge
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Or better yet, dont have them.. save a lot of $$, and spare them the misery and indignity of this broken world .
Counterpoint: Intentionally childless people are a major reason we have soaring levels of entitlement, self-centeredness, promotion of policies completely detached from reality/the future, etc.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 11:38 am to Pettifogger
You lost me. How do intentionally childless people create that condition?
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:04 pm to Centinel
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It all depends on where you want to live.
This is a lot and why general clickbait crap like this is worthless.
Of course people do need to think about living within their budget though.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:06 pm to notiger1997
After health insurance and tuition I can see the need for that much.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:20 pm to Milesahead
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You lost me. How do intentionally childless people create that condition?
It was a very, very stupid post
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:30 pm to tigergirl10
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This post was edited on 1/19/22 at 7:55 pm
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:46 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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My buddy recently put himself through the torture of figuring out how much money he's spent on daycare in his life. I think it was like 280k and he isn't done yet.
I don’t get it, if you are going to pay someone else to raise your children why have them.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 12:48 pm to tduecen
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shite 1500 mortgage is easy to obtain nowadays, seems every new subdivision being built has houses starting at 200k+ but they really mean 250k and a larger non-starter family home is going for closer to 300-350k.
Hell even buying a piece of land and a nice trailer is going to run you close to 150k if your looking for a half an Acre or more now.
Maybe in Louisiana. I'm planning on at least 450k on my first home. Granted I'm older, and do have a good job, but still prices are insane for anything that's not a fixer upper in most areas.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 2:01 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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pay like 800 every six months for insurance on two fairly new vehicles and a bass boat. I pay 350 (lol) a month for 3 cars. shite blows lmao.
I was paying about $1,300 PER MONTH! 5 drivers, 5 cars. I just carved out my son, and it’s “down” to $900.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 2:16 pm to CorkRockingham
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$2,000 in childcare
Found your problem.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 2:34 pm to Pettifogger
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Counterpoint: Intentionally childless people are a major reason we have soaring levels of entitlement, self-centeredness, promotion of policies completely detached from reality/the future, etc.
Ok, so YOUR kid is gonna be different .. YOUR kid is gonna be a special snowflake who changes everything, and people spewing out 4 or 5 kids adding to the gross overpopulation where i can barely stand driving on the interstate, or going to the freaking grocery store, that’s exactly what we need.. Got it .
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:03 pm to Milesahead
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You lost me. How do intentionally childless people create that condition?
It's a culture with no skin in the game for the future. Pretty straightforward.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:07 pm to BK Lounge
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Ok, so YOUR kid is gonna be different .. YOUR kid is gonna be a special snowflake who changes everything, and people spewing out 4 or 5 kids adding to the gross overpopulation where i can barely stand driving on the interstate, or going to the freaking grocery store, that’s exactly what we need.. Got it .
I have no idea what you're talking about. If anything, being intentionally childless forever is the historical aberration here. Procreation is kinda the norm since - hold on let me check - forever.
Also, I'm going to take a wild guess that wherever you live isn't some overpopulated megapolis anyway, and you're instead being a snowflake yourself.
"Ugh, I like hate people" - whoa really neat take, consider sharing it on Reddit
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:09 pm to Pettifogger
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Counterpoint: Intentionally childless people are a major reason we have soaring levels of entitlement, self-centeredness, promotion of policies completely detached from reality/the future, etc.
I don't know if excessive individualism is the cause or if it is the other way around, but it does seem like we have several concurrent generations who seem to be more myopic than the previous. I do have a theory about this that relates to the post-war era and choices politicians made with regard to city design and land use.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:11 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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i don't own a house. i feel pretty fricked tbh. it would be one thing if i wasn't in a position to buy one, but i have been for about 3 years now. oh well whatareyougonnado
I hear ya. I had a home that I sold in 2016. Been renting since and it’s a terrible time to not be a homeowner. I guess we’ll just have to bite the bullet and do it. I went through a rough patch that is well behind me now but entering this market is a pretty difficult decision to make. A crash within the next 12 months would be great, with hopefully a very quick rebound that starts immediately after I close. Unfortunately, my luck is usually the exact opposite.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:15 pm to Sun God
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A Cobb salad and a side of Mac n cheese and a large sweet tea is not a completely normal meal
According to Chick-fil-a's website, it's over 1,400 calories. LOL.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:18 pm to BK Lounge
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Ok, so YOUR kid is gonna be different .. YOUR kid is gonna be a special snowflake who changes everything, and people spewing out 4 or 5 kids adding to the gross overpopulation where i can barely stand driving on the interstate, or going to the freaking grocery store, that’s exactly what we need.. Got it .
That you couch your complaints about infrastructure should maybe illuminate who you should be mad at. Populations are supposed to grow. We are living in 1960's era infrastructure when the country is 150 million people larger. Your anger should maybe be at politicians rather than people who choose to have children, which is the most natural and native form of the modern human experience.
Posted on 1/19/22 at 3:20 pm to crazy4lsu
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I don't know if excessive individualism is the cause or if it is the other way around, but it does seem like we have several concurrent generations who seem to be more myopic than the previous. I do have a theory about this that relates to the post-war era and choices politicians made with regard to city design and land use.
Of course, I don't put all/most of the blame on the intentionally childless. The origins no doubt begin in an era were nuclear families were still the rule and ideal (I think post-war is the right starting point).
The post-liberal types (Patrick Deenan, etc.) would argue the excessive individualism and (somewhat counterintuitive) growth of the state are the natural byproducts of liberalism's success. I roll my eyes at that crew quite a bit, but I think he's probably right. Peak autonomy means undermining institutional restraints on the individual (parenthood included) and we inevitably require an enlarged state to protect our growing list of "liberties."
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