Seriously, I don't get why people are somehow surprised at how expensive children are, and then complain about their financial hardship when they learn that they can't afford the large family they produce. The average cost of raising a child to 21 is around £230,000. We lionise parents as all round good eggs, and then infantalise them for not being able to make basic decisions for themselves.
I told my boss to f off and now I'm unemployed. It's all societies fault man.
I suppose because when even teachers can no longer manage to sustain the bare minimum of a nuclear family, it represents a substantial, undeniable collapse in the standard of living in real terms?
Your response seems to be simultaneously A) it isn't true (she must be lying about something!) and B) even it was, it was delivered by The Free Market and is therefore The Best of All Possible Worlds
And you seem genuinely baffled why we aren't all responding like the horse in Animal Farm
You are not far off a communist functionary, but for liberalism - "This is a grown up world we're living in here isn't it?" is probably literally something your in-laws were told when they complained that the shops didn't carry blue jeans.
You love breaking other people's eggs, and every year move further from the omelette.
Anyhow, this is like debating Joey66, only with grammar.
It no longer sparks joy.
