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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
Objectively speaking, yes. Without kids you'd have a shit ton more money and freedom with a lot less stress.
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You are understating what you don't know.
Playing with kids can be a big stress reliever. Just the other day I had a ****ing shitterrible day and picked up my 3 week old and all that bullshit melted away. Quite frankly I work far fewer hours and peel myself off the tractor or out of the office because I have kids at home rather than when I was just married.
On the financial side, you're just assuming I'd remove expenses. But I blow a lot less money and save far more because I'm more responsible (whether or not that is correlation to or causation from children, who knows). I'm also far more aggressive in my career because I'm not just in it for me.
You're making grand assumptions on simple math of removing kids, but you give no credit to the utility gained from having kids.
Believe me, I was in your position once. I'm not really a kid guy. My sister has a bunch of kids and did nothing but complain about them (she's a ****). I've never really related with any other kids, I don't do illogical behavior. Not big on poop or puke. The simple truth, though, is that my life is infinitely better with kids than it was without. Argue causation/correlation all you want but there is too much evidence to prove otherwise.
And your math is wonky on the stress and financial business. You're trying to quantify what you can't measure.