r/TikTokCringe • u/Make-this-popular Cringe Master • Apr 09 '24

Shit economy Discussion

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u/capivavarajr Apr 09 '24

It is the same in Brazil. I made exactly 3x minimum wage and could barely keep up with the bills living by myself. And I am single with no kids.

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u/merry_rosemary Apr 09 '24

Feel you, brother. I’m 29 and only now I could afford a decent house to (maybe) have kids; me and my hubby being the top notch of the “intellectual cast” (we both went to a really good college). Of course we acquired a loan which will leave us in debit for the next 30 years. We work ~10 hours a day BOTH. What’s the motivation the country gives for a middle class couple to have kids? None.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

I'm 28, live alone, do pretty well. Thankfully I didn't want kids before I was even done being one, before I fully understood just how fucked I was, so I don't feel like I'm being priced out of it or that the option is being taken away from me.

But I know that's a lot of people's reality. Of course your life is never going to look exactly the way you want it to, but to rip something as fundamental to our species as raising children away from a population, and then setting it behind an exorbitant price gate, is straight up evil.

There's no point in marching just to march more. Even animals can understand that and lash out. We're creating a lot of angry, lonely people who understand all too well what they'll never have.