Even with shaving off the extras and sizing down the additional load. The basics of just raising a kid by standard of “what a adoption agency would qualify as okay” is still extremely expensive in today’s economy for one child yet alone more. The basics are basically a lot. More than two children seems unattainable on a average salary but for basics - I currently have one and feel the slight turmoil is a lot more than he is projecting. Kids are a lot more work than the doe eyed parent initially realises- I don’t think having more than one lightens the load of emotional and mental stress.
Great talk. His kids are gonna be drinking a lot of water.
Every mass murderer drank water. You want his kids to drink water. What are you saying?
Even with shaving off the extras and sizing down the additional load. The basics of just raising a kid by standard of “what a adoption agency would qualify as okay” is still extremely expensive in today’s economy for one child yet alone more. The basics are basically a lot. More than two children seems unattainable on a average salary but for basics - I currently have one and feel the slight turmoil is a lot more than he is projecting. Kids are a lot more work than the doe eyed parent initially realises- I don’t think having more than one lightens the load of emotional and mental stress.
Guess all the comment section is all anti parenting
I’m at 37:00 and still haven’t heard any good reason to have children lol
Poster child for why not have any kids !
Starts with anecdotes, jumps to pop science. Why do those people exist in academia?
he starts with anecdote to warm people up to the idea emotionally, then jumps into the hard data which is the actual evidence proving the point
Is Steven Pinker also pop-science? What does the science say btw?
@@aoeu256 Let's not drop big names. I don't discuss names, I discuss ideas.
@@EbrahimHasan Okay great, I love discussing ideas too. So what's wrong with the signalling theory of education?
@@EbrahimHasan you have an iq of 89. I am sorry.