[BitWielder1]

No wonder the middle class are balking at having children.
You either have to be very rich or very poor (i.e. someone else pays for your brat) to afford kids.

[varyouga]

It’s creating an environment of a few elites and massive uneducated underclass.

Easier to eliminate once robots make nearly all workers obsolete

[Dr. Sivana]

You either have to be very rich or very poor (i.e. someone else pays for your brat) to afford kids.

Nah. We just raise our kids like it IS 1960. Only major change is that we homeschool, and have to go a bit farther to find other kids for our kids to play with.

They don't need a cell phone, designer clothes, or daycare. We do it on one income, so we still feel the pinch, but there's no quarter mil on each one.

[4rcane]

look like inflation in education, clothing, healthcare and food. The greed of the education establishment. 2% to 18%

[kearnyirish2]

Right now we are paying the price for people listening to this nonsense 20+ years ago.

I simply refuse to believe that we are here to amass as much money as possible in our lifetimes, to simply wither away alone in an old-age home (or face a death panel).

For some balance, these articles might include how much more people pay in income taxes when they DON’T have children; now workers are simply subsidizing the children of many who will never do an honest day’s work in their lifetimes (and often haven’t had a W-2 issued in their families for generations).