> I really want to quit but then who's going to pay for my wife's pregnancy?

Solution: don’t have kids.

You already knew this beforehand.

The solution is well known throughout the rest of the developed world: a public healthcare system.

Yep. The only way to live in America is with nihilism.

You went to the effort of creating a new account just so you could be that snarky and flippant?

Hope you have a better weekend than this and that you maybe spend some time working on yourself.

It was probably serious. A lot of people don't have any kids. And if everyone tries to have 3 kids then the future will involve a lot of death.

Of course it isn't as simple as just not having kids.

How to eliminate poverty

If you're poor, the pregnancy healthcare in Austin, TX is pretty good. So the answer is: the rest of us.

That's probably for the best since you and your wife are going to spend the next two decades constructing another active labor force member - every one of whom is precious to us as a society.

"every one of whom is precious to us as a society."

This is demonstrably false - we have had how many school shootings this year? We have a "light truck exemption" that kills pedestrians and makes our vehicles an ever heavier competition (nobody wants to drive a small car if everyone else has a tank). We have the worst life expectancy of all rich nations - by a LONG shot. Our neonatal care is atrocious. We have no maternity leave. "Kids can work in meat packing plants at 14" is being honestly discussed.

Kids are a talisman, invoked to do anything except actually help them.