By western you mean America? Cause this is true only in America.

Absolutely true in Australia. The parents I know are either rich enough to outsource it or basically fighting for their life managing work and childrearing.

And to add salt to the wound, it's the people on the positive side of the economic bell curve that have strong familial support networks where grandparents and uncles and aunts can contribute to childrearing, while those on the other side of the curve can't always rely on having those support networks. A generalisation of course, but a relevant one.

It's also true in the UK. High housing costs, high living costs and low wages means two parents need to work as much as possible.

I is in the I of the beholder :)

Shawshank Redemption is much better example of this IMO... Absolute bomb at the BO that ended up being not just a classic but won like a millions Oscars as well

To me the most amazing things about AVP are things that I would enjoy socially and not alone with goggles on. I compared it to:

- The most amazing movie theatre experience in the world - but you have to go there alone

- The most amazing arcade you have ever seen - but you have to go there alone

- The most amazing restaurant in the world - but you have to dine alone

- ...

It is like everything that is great about it is (for me at least), is 100% social thing which I cannot enjoy alone with the goggles on.

Claude is running their accounting department

I suspect they would be drinking through a straw for a month or so and then complaints would stop :) OP’s comment is too funny!!!

totally. iran’s navy was advancing towards us east coast, their bombers were getting ready to fly over the atlantic and rain down on us heavily. we were all sitting here scared shitless of iran :)

It only takes one nuke and they hit targets 4000 in their recent missile attacks.

> That's essentially how you become an online pundit. The internet rewards provocative takes.

internet rewards provocative takes - plural.

this mate has a single take and writes more about this one thing than jrr tolkien did in all his works combined

I am self-employed and have been since 2007-ish and while paying "both sides" is the downside, there are soooooo many upsides to being self-employed (especially since the Trump tax sh#t has been enacted and especially if you are setup as S-Corp) that I seriously* do not mind paying both sides at all.*

you probably have a high wage profession, and you max out FICA etc. and stop paying payroll taxes around April every year. You don't like the income uptick at that point cuz you're just so darned happy to pay payroll taxes? There's a line on the form, you could throw in some more. But housekeepers are also self-employed and those taxes fall much more heavily on them. While they are in a lower tax bracket and pay less as a percentage of their income tax, payroll taxes don't work that way (till somebody chimes in to say "no, Portland Oregon is absolutely confiscatory on this score, we practice Bolshevism!" which would be missing the point)

I seriously don't mind living in America and paying taxes here but, but when better and more efficient tax regimes are available, or when socialist tax proposals derail local economies, I seriously want to educate people about them.

> Republicans advocate for fiscal responsibility

The “advocate” only during election cycle and then add more debt and spend more than 10 Democratic Parties combined. Democrats are not great either but they try to push through what they preach