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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I asked my parents exactly this.

    They said something like

    It was possible to live on one salary, so your mother could be a full time stay at home mom. This gave us the energy to be able to follow other passions

    Basically 2 people with 2 full-time jobs between them have more energy than 2 people with 3 full time jobs between them.

    Mom could volunteer and join clubs while I was at school. Dad could do marathons on the weekend. We could do family activities like camping or skiing because they weren’t exhausted by also having to do another 40 hours of work per week between them.


  • Its true, but [politics incoming] it’s harder since the nuclear home resulted in the elimination of community, and both parents are forced to work to get by, and it only looks to be getting worse.

    Raising kids is great (for many people), but it shouldn’t be your entire life. The unfortunate reality is that work and raising kids is the only life many people have access to.

    It’s also not really the case that parents are “doing it to keep the population up” so the premise is wrong.

    But it’s funny to imagine it that way









  • I’m skeptical of this - where do you get those figures from?

    Objective counter-evidence: Why are they not selling out big stadiums if spectating is that popular?

    Anecdotal counter-evidence: I hear people talk about hockey matches, I rarely hear people talk about curling matches.

    They’re both good sports and I like both, I’d like to try curling sometime.
    But surface level evidence suggests you’re incorrect, so you need to provide more convincing evidence