• peteyestee@feddit.org
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    3 hours ago

    Adoption services are going to go wild! Hospitals too with infant detox programs. It’s the new plasma!

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      I could see that, we went through a lot of diapers with my kid. Clothes pile up between 4m and 8m especially because the size fluctuations between manufacturers.

      How much did you spend the first year?

    • Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world
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      Napkin math. A box of Huggies size 1 diapers sells at 10.50 for 32 diapers, or roughly 30 cents each. My newborn spoiled a diaper about 7 to 8 times a day on average, it let’s easy say 2.50 a day, 356 days or about 912 dollars in diapers for the first year.

      That doesn’t count wipes, powder, up sizes as they grow. I suppose you could go premier diapers as well, but yeah there’s probably an easy 3000 gap on clothes

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    Daycare is free where I live. It has to be. You can’t expect people to pay for public services themselves; that’s done with taxes. Corporations can’t have customers or employees without people, and to get people to make more people, you have to make it easier for them. So what makes the most sense is cutting corporation porfits, which they don’t need past a limit if they aren’t investing in things that will benefit the public. So if a corporation isn’t doing anything good, raise their taxes, use them to pay for daycare.

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    5 hours ago

    Trade:

    • One person’s wages

    For:

    • Mortgage payments on a reasonably sized house
    • All bills
    • Food for two adults plus children
    • Entertainment

    Then you might see more babies.

    It was their greed that caused this.

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      I was surprised that bands of 20s could add up, but then I remember how you can fit a million dollars in a suitcase with 100s lol

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      5 hours ago

      You mean, they’re using irrelevant and unrelated content in the message for shock value?

      Impossible.

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    I dunno what kind of diaper prices you’ve got in the US, but $5,000 covers diapers 10 times over in a year where I live… Should probably cover food as well, I would think?

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      They won’t call them Aryan, but it will be the same shit. They’ll call it something like Christian babies or some nonsense; then use that as a smokescreen for their racism.

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    So conservatives want smaller government and less taxes but they’re totally fine with their tax dollars being used to bribe women to give birth?

    So they’re stupid?

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    Ah yes, the conservatives plan to boost the birth rate has finally come to bear a rotten fruit:

    • People can’t afford to have kids
    • People can’t afford to feed kids
    • People can’t afford to shelter kids
    • Therefore they won’t have able bodied kids to keep the retirement and tax doles fulfilled
    • Nor will they have able bodied soldiers for war

    But they’re boosting the birth rate! (they aren’t, actually, the rate will be even more in decline since the replacement rate in the US was held up by immigration like in most countries, and dumbfuck’s actions have brought a stop to that).

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    The average cost of delivering a baby in the US, including pre- and post-delivery expenses, is roughly $18,865. However, this figure can vary significantly, just gotta come up with the other 14000 dollars lol do Amerikans know other countries don’t gouge their citizens for everything including birth? Land of the fee home of the slave

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      Is that the cost without insurance? Or with? Because it seems low to me. I had a 4 night stay in a detox clinic and they charged my insurance $32,000.

      “Land of the fee, home of the slave” Jesus fucking Christ that’s a fucking great line. You come up with that or is it a quote from someone/something?

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    8 hours ago

    Fash privileging heteronormativity in order to increase servitude and hasten planetary destruction? Fairly normal in our culture.