FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhy won't you have kids??imagemessage-square158linkfedilinkarrow-up1956arrow-down127file-text
arrow-up1929arrow-down1imageWhy won't you have kids??FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square158linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareJoelk111@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoI could totally afford a child, but if I chose to do that, I wouldn’t be able to afford anything else fun, so I haven’t chosen to. By all means, I make a pretty decent living and would’ve probably been in the upper middle class 20 years ago.
minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI was in the top 2% financially in my country before I walked away from that life (the work I did was lucrative, but a brutal grind) At no point did money feature into the equation I just really don’t like kids.
minus-squareJoelk111@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoYeah, there are other reasons than just money for me too, though I do want to have one or two some day.
I could totally afford a child, but if I chose to do that, I wouldn’t be able to afford anything else fun, so I haven’t chosen to. By all means, I make a pretty decent living and would’ve probably been in the upper middle class 20 years ago.
I was in the top 2% financially in my country before I walked away from that life (the work I did was lucrative, but a brutal grind)
At no point did money feature into the equation
I just really don’t like kids.
Yeah, there are other reasons than just money for me too, though I do want to have one or two some day.