and it doenst make others selfish to only have one or two kids, if thats all they feel that they can lovingly support and care for. thats between them and God how many children they can have and provide for. they shouldnât be made to feel ashamed of not having children. sometimes financial, or physical or emotional problems prevent couples from having more than the âshamefulâ 1 or 2 and they should not be judged by that.
Actually, I do believe the person you responded to has a point. This has to do with economics, not with individual families.
You have to look at the economics of inflation and what causes it. The price of a product depends on supply and demand â that is how much the product costs to make and and how high the demand is for a product. The demand is determined by how much money people have to spend and what percentage they are willing to spend on that product. The wealthiest person will be willing to spend more money on the same product than a poorer person (granted the wealthiest person likely will try to get the product as a price as low as he can get). Meanwhile the seller of the product wants to get as much money for the product as possible. So he takes into consideration how much of the product he can make (how much he has). He wants to sell it (taking into consideration his competition) for as much as he can to get the biggest profit. If he sells it at too high of a price, per item heâll make more of a profit, but he wonât sell as much and the total profit he makes wonât be high. If he sells it at too low of a price, he will make little profit either way and will run out of the product before he satisifies the demand.
The demand line it determined by a percentage and is not based on the individual but on the average income. The higher the average income goes, the more money the average consumer is willing to spend. Thus the price of products go up in line with it and the cost of living rises. This is inflation. To counteract inflation, peopleâs salaries are raised. The raise in salary actually causes the inflation that occurs in the future. The effects arenât instantaneous, but so long as we keep adding more money to the system, the cost of living will continue to rise. The sacrifice of causing a deflation typically is not one that is made in a society as a whole so it makes it very unlikely that a penny will ever hold the significance it did a half century ago.
But the thing is that families do not spend on individual income. They spend on family income. What does the family make as a whole? When the average family was a single income family, the cost of living was at a level where it was feesible to live like that rather reasonably. Around the 70âs, women went to work out of choice and because, so long as they were a minority, it increased their standard of living. The family was able to get more. Well everyone was like âMore money and heck liberation for women.â They rushed to getting employed and soon enough the average family became a too income family and then inflation caught up deadlocking us into double income families.
This is part of the reason I am against equal pay for women. Women donât get paid less because of discrimination. They get paid less because women tend to have strong desires that defer them from becoming the primary bread winner. Weâre more willing to quit our jobs for the sake of our family. Weâre more willing to limit our job search to the region our husband found a job. Weâre less willing to travel. And as a result we tend to get paid less because we accept lower incomes.
But if our incomes ever became 50/50, we would be even more trapped in employment than we are now. Because remember we spend based on our total household income. So a family who has an income of 70/30, the person who makes 30 has more freedom and hurts the household income less than if the person who made 70% of the income lost his job.
I like have the freedom to employment but I also want to keep my freedom to be unemployed for the sake of tending to the daily neccessities of my family. Families should be based on love, not based on making sure that everything is divided out evenly.
