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Nisan comments on Is it immoral to have children? - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: jkaufman 22 October 2013 12:13PM

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Comment author: Nisan 22 October 2013 05:18:02PM 10 points [-]

I'm pretty sure the OP rarely if ever patronizes Starbucks.

Comment author: jkaufman 22 October 2013 07:20:36PM 7 points [-]

True, but I do spend money on things I want out of a discretionary self-spending budget of $45/week.

Comment author: DanielLC 23 October 2013 01:47:22AM 1 point [-]

Can you afford to raise children on that?

Comment author: jkaufman 23 October 2013 02:05:11PM *  5 points [-]

Definitely not. My answer to Nisan was misleading in this context. Brief budget summary:

  • Any money Julia earns is donated.
  • 30% of what I earn is donated.
  • The remaining 70% can't be donated, and is spent on whatever we want, including taxes, housing, discretionary spending, etc.

That remaining 70% of my income is enough to raise kids on. Currently we're saving most of it.

I brought in the $45/week because that's the piece of our budget that Starbucks would come out of, but it looks like it just confused things.

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