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0 pointskubb7mo ago0 comments

They’ll way to start families, not live with roommates.

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At 18? Who is starting a family at 18 years old in that climate?

Claude Opus's Fermi estimate of the number of 18 year olds, making at least $100,000 a year, in California, with children, to be about 8 people. Not 8 thousand, not 8 hundred. Eight. Single digit. In a state of 40 million people.

rat99887mo ago

Then what is this 100K good for? Paying for food and living with roommates? This is not great.

krater237mo ago

I make >100k, I own 5 appartments and 1.5 houses but I live in a flat, just because it's better than living alone.

lazide7mo ago

That’s also because it’s just making that number up.

I guarantee you there are more than that just from trust funders/people working for their parents and religious enough to start families early.

Stop pasting LLM slop here.

hiAndrewQuinn7mo ago

I'll give you even odds that the number is within 4 orders of magnitude of correct. That is to say, in the year of 2025, there are/were fewer than 100,000 18 year olds, resident in the state of California, who have at least one child, and who made over $100,000 that year. If you prove me wrong I'll happily concede the point.

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idiomat90007mo ago

The demographics stats say no. It is not the job of the individual to engage in self destructive life plans because the previous generations have eaten the future and wrapped in nostalgia extruded plans think they can now comand them around like plantation owners cattle.

spwa47mo ago

And with living conditions like that, I fully understand why they don't.

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