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Comment author: [deleted] 25 October 2012 12:26:55PM *  2 points [-]

This has a quiet assumption that poor people don't often grow rich, in our society this probably holds, yet let us imagine a scenario where it doesn't. Would it be acceptable to have the message "don't have kids untill you are rich"? We already have the message "don't have kids until after you get a job and/or married" yet plenty of unmarried and unemployed people are very likely to stay that way.