Re:Why are diapers so expensive?
by dancek on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:48AM
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It's not about affording diapers, it's about affording clothes and food and healthcare and baby strollers and a bigger apartment and babysitting and diapers.
The costs of everything you need to raise a child come as a surprise to most middle-class people. How would they not to the poor. Common sense says that people raise kids in developing countries and they have nothing, so it can't take money, right? But in a western society with a western standard of living, that common sense is wrong.
Re:Why are diapers so expensive?
by m_mueller on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:56AM
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Or to put it differently: If you raise a child like in a developing country, but you are in one of many developed nations, the government will come and abduct your child.
The costs of everything you need to raise a child come as a surprise to most middle-class people. How would they not to the poor. Common sense says that people raise kids in developing countries and they have nothing, so it can't take money, right? But in a western society with a western standard of living, that common sense is wrong.