If Mr Venture Capital thinks a $100 bassinet car seat combo is expensive for middle class parents, he should see what diapers or childcare costs.
I have two kids. Their daycare is more expensive than my house and car payment combined. And my daycare is considered inexpensive.
Or, idk, every other car seat…
$100 is expensive…because everyone like him fights tooth an nail to make sure that the poor stay poor.
Or how much housing costs.
If a car seat is keeping him from knocking up his wife then he is doing something very, very wrong. From what I’ve heard about this guy and furniture though, I can’t say I’m really surprised.
The dude so obviously hates women and children.
Can’t even order a donut without being completely cringe.
Yes, it’s the thought of paying for a car seat that is preventing me from having a kid.
I mean, I can handle the crushing weight of student loans, the housing costs that keep going up, wages stagnating, having shitty insurance that makes me dread even small medical costs, and making ends meet by subjecting myself to an endless grind that leaves me barely enough time to contemplate kids let alone raising them. That’s all just normal, no need for concern. But a car seat? How the fuck am I supposed to pay for that?
What a weird take
Most Americans are having enough kids. Just not white Americans. It’s amazing how great replacement theory is just run-of-the-mill republican ideology these days.
Bro just wants a couch in cars lmao
Weird asshole.
My wife and I both work. She has a demanding stressful job (that she loves, mind you) that isn’t exactly conducive to pumping. So she breastfed as long as she could and then switched to formula. Let me tell you… Car seats aren’t shit compared to buying formula and diapers these days. I’d have to double-check but formula alone is somewhere around $300-400/mo…
Noted. Vance would’ve had 100,000 more kids if he wasn’t banging car seats too.
This guy’s past is just the gift that keeps on giving. It’s almost like the people that vetted him were…perhaps less than competent?
Hmmm, I think the people who vetted him knew exactly what they were doing.
Ask him what are his sources and if he’s still friends with his college futon?
The cost of having a child in the United States, depending on where you live, is roughly $1,500-3,000 per month. Kids are basically a luxury-lifestyle accessory at this point.
Carseats aren’t really that much of a cost compared to everything else.
“American families aren’t having enough children. I think there’s evidence that some of the things that we’re doing to parents is driving down the number of children that American families are having,” Vance says in the video.
“In particular, there’s evidence that the car seat rules that we’ve imposed, which of course I want kids to drive in car seats, have driven down the number of babies born in this country by over 100,000. So as we think about how to make kids safe here, I think we should do it in a way that’s accommodating to American families.”
The weird part is “things that we’re doing to parents”. Guy want no rules, no safety standards, nothing. Libertarian weirdo.
Tying deregulation to improving birth rates is definitely one of the weirder libertarian takes I’ve heard, pure Peter Thiel I’m sure.
which of course I want kids to drive in car seats
Words are hard. I’m looking forward to Tuesday night.
I mean, they deter people from having children go headfirst through the windshield.
