WOMAN SAYS LIVING COSTS & HOME PRICES GO UP BUT SALARY STILL SAME, HOW TO HAVE KIDS

It’s no wonder we have a globally declining birth rate …

Majority of the population (including myself) can barely even afford a 1 bedroom apartment in this current economy. Having kids on top of that would be nothing short of a literal death sentence.

Both cost of living & house prices have risen EXPONENTIALLY over the last couple of years but wages have remained stagnant.

It’s gotten to the point that I’ve learned to just accept the fact that I will most likely never be able to buy a house of my own or even have kids.

It’s just sad getting up to go to work every morning knowing that your future is bleak, no matter how hard you work.

Netizens’ comments

1. That’s the funniest part of searching for a job right now – companies want young and dumb to burn through. They don’t realize the next generation is tiny compared to millennials (because so many of us couldn’t afford to have kids).
2. Combine with the fact that fertility issues have been increasing and the cost of fertility treatment, even if you are able to have a house with space, it’s still difficult. And once you have said baby, cost of day care is as much as some people’s mortgages.
3. Same, I can’t have kids because I am just a middle class person that knows my future is bleak. It’s hard to keep up.
4. Used to be, more kids was financially beneficial, nowadays it’s the opposite. The result is inevitable.
5. Money needs to circulate, not be hoarded. These dirty ba-rds are quite literally killing everyone else with greed.
6. having a child regardless of my circumstances is a literal death sentence to me.
7. Im so busy working 60-84hrs a week I got no time or energy to make babies.
8. It’s not just a couple of years, it’s more like a decade for stagnant salaries. I’ve only been working for my present company for three years and hard balled a crappy raise the last two, but there are people who have been there for 8 and never had a raise.