older kids can throw rocks at police cars if they're bored after school and have nowhere to go
Goethestein posted:discipline posted:how's that goatstein
supporting two people (plus crotchspawn) on a combined income of $80,000 a year, or $60,000, or $40,000, is substantially easier than doing so on 40, 30 or 20.
If you've got three or four kids idk if it's that clear cut. Daycare is going to be at least 10,000 a kid. That was one of the reasons my family moved to single earner. I guess you could skip daycare if you can finagle your schedules right or trust your oldest kid once they reach their tweens. As a kid though I always smoked weed at the houses of my friends with working parents so yeah Idk how good an idea that is.
Of course Im bougie as hell but I suspect even poor people don't like leaving babies around unattended
Squalid posted:Goethestein posted:discipline posted:how's that goatstein
supporting two people (plus crotchspawn) on a combined income of $80,000 a year, or $60,000, or $40,000, is substantially easier than doing so on 40, 30 or 20.
If you've got three or four kids idk if it's that clear cut. Daycare is going to be at least 10,000 a kid. That was one of the reasons my family moved to single earner. I guess you could skip daycare if you can finagle your schedules right or trust your oldest kid once they reach their tweens. As a kid though I always smoked weed at the houses of my friends with working parents so yeah Idk how good an idea that is.
Of course Im bougie as hell but I suspect even poor people don't like leaving babies around unattended
That's what grandparents (retired people) are for.
Keven posted:Agreed. I'm owned because you have to subsidize child care despite being forever alone. Get thee to a nunnery.
actually i'm going to marry a beautiful woman. it's gonna be cool.
The most productive part of an economy and probably the
most important, especially in developing countries — is the informal
exchanges in which no money changes hands. Generally speaking, for
example, parents care for children much better than daycare does. Yet
the GDP treats these functions as having no value whatsoever. It does,
however, count the police, prisons, social workers, and so on that result
from the breakdown of the nonmonetized social realm.
In this fashion, much of what economists call growth and the GDP
records as growth is really just the shifting of functions from the
nonmarket economy of household and community, where economists
can't see them, to the market, where they can. The garden plot
becomes the supermarket, home sewing of clothes becomes the sweatshop;
parenting becomes childcare; visits on the side porch become the
entertainment economy and psychiatry. Up and down the line, the
things people used to do freely for and with one another turn into
products and services. The market grows by cannibalizing the family
and community realms that nurture and sustain it.
ilmdge posted:In this fashion, much of what economists call growth and the GDP records as growth is really just the shifting of functions from the
nonmarket economy of household and community, where economists
can't see them, to the market, where they can. The garden plot
becomes the supermarket, home sewing of clothes becomes the sweatshop;
parenting becomes childcare; visits on the side porch become the
entertainment economy and psychiatry. Up and down the line, the
things people used to do freely for and with one another turn into
products and services. The market grows by cannibalizing the family
and community realms that nurture and sustain it.
good
Goethestein posted:why do leftists continually assert that mental illness is the result of a lack of community instead of brain malfunctions
"community" is a meaningless buzzword in most cases
getfiscal posted:wow yeah it'd be cool if economists ever thought about those sorts of issues. too bad the whole profession will have to shut down after being defeated by a folksy reduction to absurdity which completely misrepresents the issues.
The post you are replying to does not attempt to discredit all of economics. It attempts to put the GDP in its proper place: a metric of monetary transactions, which is not a complete metric of productivity.
animedad posted:Goethestein posted:why do leftists continually assert that mental illness is the result of a lack of community instead of brain malfunctions
"community" is a meaningless buzzword in most cases
so is mental illness
AmericanNazbro posted:a notion that a person is mentally ill when they deviate from the norm in a perverted and schizophrenic society. to be sane is to be a sociopath that commodifies people, and champions war and subjugation with religious zealotry.
thats weird cuz here i thought it meant not sleeping in garbage and arguing with ghosts
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Squalid posted:Of course Im bougie as hell but I suspect even poor people don't like leaving babies around unattended
you definitely don't know any poor people
discipline posted:I told my mother I wanted her to come live with me once I started a family
ya i told ur mom that too lol