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he's still training, IT forgot to get him his wizard staff account enabled

Idk what you mean "no significant features". I definitely needed AI integration in notepad.exe.

You don't need childcare if you're childless

Childless person here. My partner and I had no ability to count on our families for childcare, or more basic things. Our choice to not have children was more about our (tenuous) mental health and lack of emotional support from family, but economics played a part too.

You are lucky to have support from someone who has good health and the ability to watch your kids (they are retired? None of my family can afford that)

Children aren't some sort of luxury. Our poverty line should allow for people to afford children.

I don't agree with all of this guy's numbers but you absolutely should include the cost of children in the poverty line.

Friend, the totals are percentages, not absolute counts

I downvoted the top comment in this chain.

That said, ya'll being dramatic about this getting a few upvotes. It takes about 0 braincells to half-read a comment while doomscrolling in bed, and then upvote it. I don't think it's worth calling people out for this, feels toxic.

This poll annoyed me so much I googled it. It's just a really shitty poll. There is no reason to believe the 5 listed jobs is a subset of the answers. This is an infographic summarizing a single question from a survey that seems to be commissioned by LEGO.

Article from the "Harris Poll"

I couldn't find like, an academic paper describing the poll. There's no methodology for it I can find. It's just some corporate fluff piece, frankly.

So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included

Yep, only 3 countries. This is just a trash poll.

It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers.

Mmhmm, I also noticed that, which is why it's the second sentence in my post.

Given the small sample size

It's a survey of 3,000? It's still possible that only one person was giving the survey to the Chinese students.

But yeah, it does look like the Chinese students got different instructions or had them explained differently or something. Just a strange poll.

18+52+37+47+56=210 for China. Each child could pick up to 3 answers. The average number of jobs the Chinese children picked was 2.

For USA/UK the average was about 1. Very few children selected more than one answer.

That's weird. What a weird poll. Were there only 5 possible choices? I would have told you I wanted to be a veterinarian at that age, if I answered at all. (I did not become a vet, I became a failure lmao)

Tbf 1y coin is made out of aluminum, not copper. They float.

We would call them yennies. Its probably time to get rid of them, but I'll be sad.

The 10000 yen note is obviously a yenjamin.

Hi, I read the article.

24% of all households are living paycheck to paycheck, while 29% of low-income households are living paycheck to paycheck this year, according to the article.

The title should (imho) read "nearly 3 in 10 low income Americans" instead of nearly a third. But, "nearly a quarter" wouldn't be right either.

I'm also surprised the number is only 3 in 10...

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I would like to know to whom you are referring to here.