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cartoonshateher.com is a personal blog at cartoonshateher.com about culture and writing. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked on HN in a thread on the cost of raising children and falling birth rates. The one comment discusses subsidies for poor families and middle-class parenting pressure, without judging the post's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Two points: 1. In rich countries (like the US, where I live), some of the cost of children is subsidized for poor people. 2. Middle class parents are very unlikely to raise their children at the same cost as poor parents. If they can afford better things for their kids, they will . There is enormous social (even moral) pressure on parents to make sacrifices for their kids. Note that I think both of these things are…
Comment linking /p/how-to-have-grandchildren
on “The Future Is Too Expensive – A New Theory on Collapsing Birth Rates”Submitted I Wanted to Be a Writer. It Didn't Happen Until 35 (Part 1) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted "Be Yourself" Only Works for People Who Aren't Annoying as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm Obsessed with Lonely Young People (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living Your Truth as an Uptight Prig as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Most Personal Essays Suck as a story · 1 points
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