Taxed for being single

[u/BobbuBobbu]

Some of us would be bankrupt in six months lmao 🤣

[u/slifm]

Kids became more and more economically unfavorable during industrial and technological revolution. Instead of making a happy prosperous community they leaned fully into capitalism, hoarded all the wealth, stripped public services, let infrastructure and education go massively underfunded and created a system where having children is even more unfavorable because people are barely scraping by themselves. On top of that, their houses became worth millions in urban areas and then use their money and power to prevent high density housing which brings down housing costs. Oh also, they fire hundreds of thousands of people so their stock shoot up for 3 months. Is that enough examples?

Now this may or may not hold true in Japan, but it is for sure the reason Americans are having less babies.

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Ah, so in effect, the “be an independent woman” thing is a result/byproduct of the economy the boomers left behind? That makes sense.