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So unless you're already an owner yourself, you'd better hurry up to be mid-grade meat lest your children will surely become mid-grade meat themselves. That's q

So unless you're already an owner yourself, you'd better hurry up to be mid-grade meat lest your children will surely become mid-grade meat themselves. That's quite a decision for a 22 year old.

a8da6b0c91d 13y ago
> mid-grade meat This is laughable urban yuppie status anxiety stuff, which I guess is kind of michaelochurch's schtick. There is life outside of the Bay Area, ya know. As it stands it's practically advantageous to be broke and have kids. There are a million programs and subsidies and scholarships to milk. You pay virtually no taxes. It's the middle class that gets milked.
- ForHackernews 13y ago
  Yeah, being so broke you don't pay taxes is awesome! Lucky duckies![1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Ducky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Ducky
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > As it stands it's practically advantageous to be broke and have kids. There are a million programs and subsidies and scholarships to milk. Most of those programs don't make up, even in their domain, for not having moderate income, not to mention that several of them are either time limited (both in consecutive terms and lifetime terms), or require you to be actively seeking improvement in your financial situation, or both.
- aestra 13y ago
  Believe it or not, many of those programs childcare programs are for anybody regardless of income. Yeah, I'm speaking as someone who has gone to MANY of them. We had one that was completely free for anyone who lived in the county and there was tons of middle class people who lived in the county, probably more middle class than poor people. The well off don't want to send their kids there, they want to spend time on a waiting list to send their kids to an expensive but "good" childcare place. Same as they want them to go to a "good" school, so they spend twice as much in housing.

So unless you're already an owner yourself, you'd better hurry up to be mid-grade meat lest your children will surely become mid-grade meat themselves. That's quite a decision for a 22 year old.

a8da6b0c91d 13y ago

> mid-grade meat This is laughable urban yuppie status anxiety stuff, which I guess is kind of michaelochurch's schtick. There is life outside of the Bay Area, ya know. As it stands it's practically advantageous to be broke and have kids. There are a million programs and subsidies and scholarships to milk. You pay virtually no taxes. It's the middle class that gets milked.

ForHackernews 13y ago
Yeah, being so broke you don't pay taxes is awesome! Lucky duckies![1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Ducky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Ducky
dragonwriter 13y ago
> As it stands it's practically advantageous to be broke and have kids. There are a million programs and subsidies and scholarships to milk. Most of those programs don't make up, even in their domain, for not having moderate income, not to mention that several of them are either time limited (both in consecutive terms and lifetime terms), or require you to be actively seeking improvement in your financial situation, or both.
aestra 13y ago
Believe it or not, many of those programs childcare programs are for anybody regardless of income. Yeah, I'm speaking as someone who has gone to MANY of them. We had one that was completely free for anyone who lived in the county and there was tons of middle class people who lived in the county, probably more middle class than poor people. The well off don't want to send their kids there, they want to spend time on a waiting list to send their kids to an expensive but "good" childcare place. Same as they want them to go to a "good" school, so they spend twice as much in housing.