"the cost of life" can often be measured in.
- prenatal healthcare, to get a good, healthy brain-fetal-start
- the actual birth
. post-natal care (brain, muscular, hormonal too, as it is said)
. child care (that is actually really cheap)
- learning basic skills as to read and write (learning to read is cheaper than learning to write)
- learning to multiply and divide (division is really expensive and difficult, interest rates, special sub-deals and coupons, etc, flat rates and IRS..)
- pay for the mortage, teaser rates and sub-prime rates, plus 28% on the gratis Visa card (division is difiicult, even by a metric 100, as any economist has found out)
- save for the education, OF CHOICE, for the poor kids
- buy four more cars, insurances, plus garages, really lots of gasoline and insurances, sub/insurances and special private investments and insuramentes.
- invest for ones retirement, to rent out the garages to as many as possible illegal ones.
(while paying the property taxes for the kids of those living down the streets, but not in the garages)
Usually that is enough for the local costs and investments, in general it is a costs of appr 10-15% of the parents if one includes the cost of police, the firebrigade, some courts and basic education, plus some roads so that the kids can go to school.
If more is to be invested, one can expect additional costs, highways, railroads, even air and sea, maybe some space ports and some universities.
At this point the hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros tend to stack up, especially for really skilled kids, often reaching some $200-400,000, even millions for those who need special education to graduate, brain surgeons, governors or presidents of USA, or who just got bad at a very early age, got their stuff from the local 7-11 and then got well orgnized..
Anyway, if one has more than 1.5 child and more than 2.75 grandparents, plus more than half a somewhat well behaved neighbour, the scandinavian system is much more efficient.
For example, the cost of building huge walls all around the property, installing iront bars in front of every window close to the ground, feeding lots of dogs running around between those windows and those walls, plus making sure the guard at the gate has his AK/47 properly loaded and knows how to use it, can be fairly high.
What is worse, the maids and gardeners cannot get to their job by just taking the bus, they must be inspected every time they arrive and leave, or live on the property, for example in the cellar.
That is also another cost of life, especially for the kids, also fo the maid and the gardner, although the wife might really think the gardner the younger one, is a good investment.
However, it might still be possible to let out the kid to play, and get them into a good univerity, with good donations and alumnian multi-generational points and scores at the entrance and the exit.
PS It seems the exit is funnier these days...
PPPPS Funny stuff, if one studies hard, becomes productive at age 30, one has another 20-30 years to be productive, and then another 30/40 years to be retired.
Those productive 20-30 years are really cheap, with less than 1.5 kid and less than 2.75 grandparents and almost no neighbors.
However, every tenth year there is a deep recession, even regression, one might go postal or shoot ..
(about 10 years ago, it became dangerous to go out, regular lunch, and eat with ones collegues and underperformers, in CA?? somebody might enter the lunch, although not with a postal AK-47 then)
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PPPS A flat rate of 10% plus a dozen of free AK-47 (a $150 these days( is a good start. |
