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Re:The 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Bubble Is About to Burst by asoneth on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:36PM (#34372766)
The person you are replying to had a job (likely in tech), a house, a car, and a chance at promotion when the child was conceived. That seems like a better position than most.

If your implied threshold for conceiving a child is that you must have acquired all of these things plus enough savings to weather unexpected medical events and extended job loss then that seems like a threshold that the majority of couples will not reach during their childbearing years.

Re:The 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Bubble Is About to Burst by Sakos on Saturday January 14, 2023 @10:10AM (#34380859)
This is the biggest reason why people aren't having kids in the US and much of the West. Nobody actually can afford it anymore.