Is your employer paying you enough to afford at least a family?
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I think the question should be is, are you living within your means enough, given what your current employer is providing to you, to keep your family alive?
Is your government not debasing your currency enough or overtaxing you such that you can afford a family?
No
Don't have a employer ✨️🫂 But it should be! Enough or Next 💜
Wages vs expenses is definitely a consideration, but I've also found the adage is true:
If you wait to have kids until you can afford them, you'll never have them.
It's a little like protecting your Bitcoin stack. When the right pressure is applied to a solid HODLer, they'll come up for ways to afford what they want without selling corn.
I have five kids, my wife works as a middle school teacher, I've had to work 60hr weeks minimum the past few years to keep up whereas before I worked overtime to "get ahead"
I graduated college in 2008 as the "great recession" was underway, I was introduced to bitcoin in 2010 but was described to me as a way to buy drugs online. I was out of that "scene" by then so I didn't pay any attention to it much later.
I'm all in on bitcoin now, I teach my kids about bitcoin and how its helped to preserve earnings and about the Fed Reserve, the abandoning of the gold standard and the capture of govt by corporations.
We are surviving and stacking.
Hope for the building of parallel society.
Peace
I feel this!
I feel you man. I remember when my workdays were 8 hours. 7-3 or 8-4. I could go to the gym for two hours before dinner, or do chores through the week to free up my weekends to do things with my family. 10 and 11 hour shifts are “the new eight”. And the culture where I live supports 14-16 hour workdays as normal. Remember when a single income could maintain a household and permit one parent to even fully educate their children if they chose? The state raised my kids. My wife and I are beat by Friday night. And we are still struggling not to backslide. Bitcoin represents the main source of hope I have for being able to maintain our house for now, and hopefully downsize into a cabin on a small piece of land where we can produce the majority of what we consume.
I'm underemployed at the moment.