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Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by Chris2048 on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @06:26AM (#15173869)
> I think everyone deserves

To live a life free of consequences? As in have more kids, same quality of life?

How will that work?

> everyone deserves..

And who pays?

Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by namarie on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:43AM (#15175665)
>To live a life free of consequences?

To live a fulfilling life without the constant fear of not being able to adequately provide for yourself or your offspring?

>And who pays?

Since it'd be us, collectively, as a society who would benefit it'd make sense for us, collectively, as a society to pay.

Re:To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors by Chris2048 on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @11:51AM (#15176391)
> To live a fulfilling life without the constant fear

And this comes, for free, with no obligations? What is the standard for a "fulfilling life"? One child? A hundred? If I think my life will be fulfilled by skydiving, or playing XBox, or hookers and blow - should the state pay for those as well?

> it'd be us, collectively, as a society who would benefit

What you are describing is a market, but with no feedback or control; When someone ends up a burden on society due to a poor upbringing, does "society" get a refund?

If we are paying for people to bring up children, it would make more sense if the we initiated it; rather than people self-select for parenthood and get child welfare as an individual right.