Hmm, no that can’t be it…
It’s probably because of woke.
Three kids on one salary was a unique phenomenon of peak imperial extraction post WWII, and Americans have grown up expecting that to continue forever. It is simply not viable for the average person under capitalism if you want your kids to have a decent quality of life.
Why is no one in the west having children, I’m just asking the hard questions!
REPRODUCE SOLDIERS FOR IMPERIALISM- we need to find ways to improve the birth rate women shouldnt have bodily autonomy
- If we don’t have more babies our culture is going to be snuffed out! «A different set of fourteen words I won’t be repeating in a public setting.»
Well, capitalist society, not technological. Capitalism hates investing in children but loves exploiting them (see Jeffrey Epstein, many of whose victims came from poorer families in Florida). But most decent people want to invest in their children, the result being those who can afford it delaying our foregoing birthing altogether, leaving only a few classes of people birthing regularly (the rich, the too poor/uneducated to reduce/avoid birthing, those who resign themselves to accept/expect worse lives for their children, those who don’t care, etc.).
Ofc i’m child free what kind of monster would lock a child. Free the children or something, i have no money
It’s more about the shift from mass production where labour dominates to a capital intensive mode of production. In the former you have many products with average rates of return, in the latter you have a massive upfront cost expecting big returns. People child rearing matches this, in the first they have a ton of kids in the second they pool all the ‘investment’ into one kid
Are you trying to tell me that the mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political, and spiritual processes of life? 🤨
I lose 65% of my income to taxes
Source? Unless they live in Sweden.
You missed a very key addition. And rent
I did miss that, thank you.
TBF the wording was suspicious
Glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that
Yeah this sound like the common reactionary discourse of the govern is the real culprit!!
More and more localities are pushing sales tax since wealthy landowners are unhappy about paying more property taxes now that their property values are skyrocketing. If Texas and Florida refuse to implement income tax, and continue to insist on lowering property tax, that leaves one revenue stream available. And if Mayor Quimby keeps adding half a percent of sales tax to everything you buy, that means your tax rate continues to climb.
If Texas and Florida refuse to implement income tax
Excuse me, but what the fuck? Like how do they still not have that? (I already know the reason considering the states mentioned)
