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bigballsbjorn

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    Comment #48289517

    i dont really have resentment toward having children. my only resentment is toward having to pay into a social system where the majority of recipients don't understand why having n…

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    Comment #48289498

    doesnt make sense unless money has no meaning anymore.

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    Comment #48287686

    why would it be paid? you get the value back through the social contract. monetary incentives for children are empirically proven to be very ineffective. so the ship will go down r…

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    Comment #48287654

    its true tho, basically all the time after working your 9-5 you have to invest into your children. i personally still want to have children in my mid 20s. i don't really care about…

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    Comment #48286732

    again, the problem is demographic. people like you are not able to see beyond the first order effects. if you finance the social system from the rich you will fundamentally not fix…

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    Comment #48286691

    its low in practice for a family with a single earner is what i meant. ehegattenpsplitting. but yes by default its obviously very high but thats kind of the norm for western countr…

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    doesnt mean the solution is bombarding them with free money from the state. in a democracy there is probably no sensible or passable solution regardless.

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    Comment #48282042

    if you marry you basically half your income tax burden if your partner is not employed. there are also child support payments from the government of several hundred € per month tha…

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    Comment #48281985

    children will massively compromise your lifestyle, not just financially but they require a lot of "labor" from you. this is probably the most important piece of the social contract…

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    almost always the case especially in germany where you are already incentivised with super low income taxes, free kindergarten and a shit load of other payments from the goverment.…

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