i used to buy into the idea that kids are expensive.
then i sat with a friend who said he needed $2 million in liquidity before he could have kids. didn't think much of it at the time.
a few months later i was sitting with a man who made 60% less than me. big family. happy kids. no stress about it.
started paying attention after that. met business owners with families. met guys working regular jobs with families. all making it work.
kids aren't expensive. your choice of woman is.
if she needs the kids in designer clothes and the latest everything, yeah it's going to cost you.
if she's a down to earth woman who actually wants to be a mother. who comes from a family that doesn't chase trends. who sees the joy in raising kids and not in showing them off.
it's not expensive.
loads of people with far less money than you are raising great kids right now.
if you actually want to improve the world, the move isn't posting another youtube video.
it's having children and raising them well.
While I'm all for mocking vegans and vegetarians for suggesting that oranges are a good source of protein or unfermented soy is a beneficial addition to anybody's diet (male or female), vegans and vegetarians are totally right that industrial farming of animals is an abomination and a stain on our collective soul. Millions of sentient creatures who deserve our compassion and respect are slaughtered in ways that would make the cruelest Assyrian king blush. Where vegans go wrong, deliberately or otherwise, is in insisting that there is no other way to raise livestock at scale than in industrial concentration camps. There is no question that we can do things differently. It might mean that we eat fewer chickens and pigs and more sheep, goats and cattle, but that's no bad thing. We need to stop treating farming as an industry like cement-making and see it for what it truly should be: the expression of God's profound trust in man to be a steward of the earth and its creatures. Industrial farming is not only a cruel deviation from the true nature of animals, but from our own God-given nature too.