• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    What are the odds this is just Clinton’s $5,000 Baby Bond, which was just giving them a fund at birth that they can cash out when they turn 18?

    Except this time there’s no guardrails and he can give it to all his cryptobro friends.

  • peteyestee@feddit.org
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    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

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        Don’t forget medical visits and one other thing… Hmmm, what was it again that almost half of children born end up needing again? Oh yeah, baby formula.

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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.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    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.

  • jaschen@lemm.ee
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    I used to work as a teller at a bank. That bag of money is over 100k.

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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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      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?