• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    Trade:

    • One person’s wages

    For:

    • Mortgage payments on a reasonably sized house
    • All bills
    • Food for two adults plus children
    • Entertainment

    Then you might see more babies.

    It was their greed that caused this.

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    How about some of that socialism for the rest of us, and not just for breeders and soybean farmers?

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        I was being a bit facetious, but yeah. It’s a pretty transparent ploy to get the birth rate up for as little money as possible. God forbid line doesn’t go up always and forever, for all eternity.

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    So conservatives want smaller government and less taxes but they’re totally fine with their tax dollars being used to bribe women to give birth?

    So they’re stupid?

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      I was surprised that bands of 20s could add up, but then I remember how you can fit a million dollars in a suitcase with 100s lol

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    $5,000 is a lot to those braindead morons who insist that “nobody wants to work” because they’re still living comfortably off of a few $1,400 checks from half a decade ago…

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    Daycare is free where I live. It has to be. You can’t expect people to pay for public services themselves; that’s done with taxes. Corporations can’t have customers or employees without people, and to get people to make more people, you have to make it easier for them. So what makes the most sense is cutting corporation porfits, which they don’t need past a limit if they aren’t investing in things that will benefit the public. So if a corporation isn’t doing anything good, raise their taxes, use them to pay for daycare.

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      60 years ago, wages were sufficient that one partner could be a homemaker even if the other only had a modest job, and they could afford a house and a car. We’ve only needed daycare as wages have stagnated against the cost of living.

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      Yeah, I counted at least 50 stacks of $20 bills. Usually those stacks are 100 bills each, so over $100k in that pic.

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      Those stacks aren’t 100 dollars each that’s for sure… More like 1000… I count at least 47 stacks… So let’s round to 50…

      Yeah that’s 50k, which is definitely more than 5k

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      They won’t call them Aryan, but it will be the same shit. They’ll call it something like Christian babies or some nonsense; then use that as a smokescreen for their racism.

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    What are the odds this is just Clinton’s $5,000 Baby Bond, which was just giving them a fund at birth that they can cash out when they turn 18?

    Except this time there’s no guardrails and he can give it to all his cryptobro friends.

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    The average cost of delivering a baby in the US, including pre- and post-delivery expenses, is roughly $18,865. However, this figure can vary significantly, just gotta come up with the other 14000 dollars lol do Amerikans know other countries don’t gouge their citizens for everything including birth? Land of the fee home of the slave

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      Is that the cost without insurance? Or with? Because it seems low to me. I had a 4 night stay in a detox clinic and they charged my insurance $32,000.

      “Land of the fee, home of the slave” Jesus fucking Christ that’s a fucking great line. You come up with that or is it a quote from someone/something?

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      I get your ribbing. But it’s sad if people think they saved anything.

      They literally mathematically added way more debt and cut gap.

      Yeah we don’t need govt workers…who contribute to tax base. Nah…

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    Fash privileging heteronormativity in order to increase servitude and hasten planetary destruction? Fairly normal in our culture.

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      Can you provide proof humans are actually damaging the earth? Just curious, because there is a lot of science out there saying it is not.

      I agree with you though.

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        Can you provide proof humans are actually damaging the earth? Just curious, because there is a lot of science out there saying it is not.

        No, there isn’t. There is not a single reputable scientist alive in the world today who doubts the existence of man-made climate change. The Greenhouse Effect is science we explain to literal 5 year olds. Anyone espousing otherwise is either, a complete shill, or grossly misinformed by the propaganda of the same people responsible for the microplastics currently occupying the area found in the space between your ears. Do not be this obtuse.

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          Why did global temperatures drop during the industrial revolution then, if it contributes so much to man made climate change ? Not doubting micro plastics. I’m only talking about climate. The climate naturally changes over time. Native Americans burned entire forests for hunting land, for example, not to mention volcanoes.

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            Bullshit, made up by billionaires to continue to obfuscate the literal ecocide of our planet in exchange for profits. Tired, boring, shill shit. Why does the one rebelling against the mainstream, the guys who are “just asking questions” repeat the same lie told by ‘The Man’ over and over again and how it just so happens to serve the bottom line of those destroying the Earth for those profits. Indoctrination, that’s how I explain it. Also, global climate models *did not exist * in the 1800’s we started modelling climate change in the 1960’s. So, your data can’t possibly be accurate in relation to what we have now, because our methodology is just so much better thanks to the advent of technology and improved record keeping. Models, which have been shown to be frighteningly accurate and actually less than what is actively progressing right now, due to the massive additional carbon emissions created by Amazon.com’s influence on the global supply chain. You’re wrong and you’ll continue to be wrong and present tired, dis-proven talking points that serve the small number of men that will destroy us all because of the capitalist hellscape they have created with fiat money. A mass hallucinatio of a valuable resource that does not exist. But, I’d rather look for a solution than continue to debate you. Not everyone can be saved, it’s not worth trying.

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              I like it! Good points. I don’t use Amazon by the way, and try to get others to do the same but it’s a hard battle. I’m sure I waste in other ways but I try. People need to have a little more curiosity and creativity in reusing or making stuff themselves, not buying shit they don’t need. The real issue is billionaires with a carbon footprint 10000 times bigger than any of us could imagine. And I don’t think any of us can stop that, unless we boycott literally every company.

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                Yeah, who are the same dudes who want to destroy the earth in exchange for profit, by pretending global climate change is not the single largest existential threat to the working class. When you’re rich, you can be anywhere you need to be to avoid weather catastrophies.