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Comment by olah_1 | Hacker News Reader

Who says they want it to be for all classes?

Right now, the rich are disproportionately punished for having children while the poor are basically paid for it. How about flip flopping that?

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That’s a serious citation needed: if you think there are lavish social payments which reward poor people for having kids, the 80s called and want Reagan’s campaign mythology back. The United States makes parenting expensive but the richer you are the easier time you’ll have dealing with it.

The rich are just fine, it's the middle class that's getting squeezed out. We used to pass programs to make it easier for the middle class to have kids. But the liberation of Black people in America has caused so much racial resentment that the rich were able to exploit it to make us think we were fighting over scarce resources in the richest nation in history... meanwhile we have billionaires quietly and not so quietly tilting the playing field in their favor. As racism towards Black people declined somewhat, we're being sold another racist lie that illegal immigrants are the reason America is ill...

If the poor have it so good why don’t the rich simply become poor?

Hey, thanks for reminding me of Ruben Bolling's classic (it's been 20+ years, that qualifies as "classic" right?) comic character "Lucky Ducky".

https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2002/12/21

The rich can absolutely afford as many children as they want.

Whom you are talking about are upstart "upper middle" who have a good wage but no capital of their own, and the rich are generally happy to have them thrown under the bus rather than face them as equals.

The method of throwing under the bus is have them overwork for a wage and then second job to waste that wage on "fueling economic growth". Not turning these into anything permanent.

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