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Say you had two options,

1) Live a life of poverty -- even if only temporarily -- on your own merit. Improvement is not guaranteed.

2) Sell out -- even if only temporarily -- to maintain a high standard of living, or even to advance your standard of living or career at some humiliating or somewhat humiliating cost.

If you look at the two sides of government, it's the same animal with a different distribution mechanism. They both lie and steal. They are both running the USA (the economic power of the moment) in debt... because debt is money, and they need more growth. In effect, they are confiscating your standard of living slowly, methodically... confiscating your work.

https://www.debtconsolidation.com/us-debt-presidents/

Government is simply a distribution mechanism as they work to maintain "growth". They no longer accept "decline/deflation/depression"... it would be too drastic a shock to society and they wouldn't get voted in again. They take from some and give to others since they make nothing. So, which method do you prefer they use to distribute?

If you say "neither", then you are voting for a near total collapse as the various markets collapse, home prices collapse and we go into a deflationary cycle. Social chaos would be high.

I'm not asking if you are republa this or demo that... which methodology is better to distribute the money... because that is what they have all promised to do... distribute money.

I'm not here to discourage anyone from marriage and kids. If you desire either, I'd urge you to turn back now unless you have at least 2 of the following: An open mind, common sense, a thick e-skin.

it seems that most people (especially women!!!) put a very high priority or importance on marriage and kids. Most of them see it like an iceberg: You see the top 10% of what it is above the surface of the ocean but do not consider the other 90% beneath the surface.

Furthermore with the economy collapsing at an accelerating rate, to maintain a complete family at full standard living (no chronic diseases and other discomforts for everyone) in a middle class family an income of near 6 figures is required. Most people don't earn that much. The poverty line threshold is also rising as a result of inflation (at least in my experience first hand). Overpopulation contributes to these problems.

so you build yourself up and then forfeit everything you have, materialistic and abstract for marriage and kids (which has also no warranty of turning out to be what you wanted it to be).
and with conditions like these in our society and planet, where we even the most ambitious and hardworking young adults can't really maintain for ourselves fully due to low finances.

even our previous generation members keep telling us sometimes how the finances/resources were much easier obtainable or the salaries (or rather the value of the money back then) were much higher than they are today.

so due to these hardships and circumstances it's making less sense to bring more kids into here and legally chaining yourself to another person you both supposedly were approved to "be in love indeed". is marriage and kids overrated?