I think that's stupid

one thing I wonder how he'd address is what I have learned lately, that the rich have different temperaments and abilities, yes, but often their richness comes down to simply having information poor people do not

retards breeding at the expense of others is not even slightly sufficient to cause the others to breed less

having children is far too basic a drive

its only in our modern times it feels like that

eh

something unimportant or delayable

you're doing the thing where you argue with my point rather than hearing it out

not really in the mood

just responding to that previous thing you said

maybe I should just PM prozak instead

I'm just saying based on what you said, you don't have to respond to me, I'm not breaking down your arguments

What are you guys up to

people breeding at sub replacement levels is not something easily explainable, that's all I'm saying

@fallot I think it has more to do with the expensive of raising a child in the middle class

I don't know the exact figure, but I've heard $100,00+ thrown around in conversation before

that probably factors in, and maybe what Exilarch said factors in too

seems like a reasonable figure to me

but most people don't appreciate how abnormal and exceptional a behaviour it is

Half Of Detroit’s Candidates for Mayor Are Felons

That's it?

That city is so corrupt, I guarantee all of them have committed felonies in the past

Otherwise their political careers wouldn't have made it that far

why does it cost 100k for a kid

Food

Education

Long term investment

Invest in genes

education?

college

college is for poor people

Nowadays

no, it always was

not really

not at all

what do you mean always

college is a factory to generate skilled employees for rich people to buy and boss around

Dont agree with always

That's dumb

yeah

of course you think it's dumb