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Re:U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold by malvosenior on Thursday March 01, 2018 @06:52PM (#16497510)
People have a choice in whether or not they procreate. If you can't afford to do it or are unwilling to sacrifice the extra income to focus more on your family, then you shouldn't have children.

Just as if I chose to go live in the wilderness, it would only make sense that my income would drop. No one would be at fault and I wouldn't expect the government to make up the difference for my "lost" income.

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Re:U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold by watwut on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:40PM (#16498527)
And a lot of people going into wilderness would be economic issue with economic consequences.

Your first paragraph applies equally to men - but men are statistically less willing to sacrifice extra income to focus more on familly. Maybe men should not have children (?!).

Nevertheless, ignoring judgemental moral in previous paragraph, it does not make theoretical "men with children earn less" something that needs to be discussed as not economics.

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