Also, entirely ignorant of the long term savings social programs provide. Poverty is expensive. The cost of a condom is nothing compared to the cost of a baby. The cost of caring for and educating a baby is nothing compared to the cost of an adult raised and living in poverty. The cost of providing for an adult raised and living in poverty is nothing compared to the cost of dealing with systemic problems related to homelessness.
You cannot avoid the costs, you can only kick them down the road a ways, where they will only grow.
They’re not if you consider the cost of funding a whole state’s worth of condoms vs the cost of dealing with unwanted children in the foster care system, then the legal system when some of those children grow up to be criminals after society has failed them.
Sorry, I just switched Lemmy clients and i responded to the wrong comment. My reply was meant for the ‘condoms cost less than $500’ comment in this thread.
I agree with you.
(And then I just responded to myself instead of you. I think I need to clear my cache.)
Are there numbers way off? I paid tens of thousands of dollars in taxes last year which is only possible because my parents had access to food stamps when I was a kid. Over a lifetime it could definitely work out to half a million.
Also, entirely ignorant of the long term savings social programs provide. Poverty is expensive. The cost of a condom is nothing compared to the cost of a baby. The cost of caring for and educating a baby is nothing compared to the cost of an adult raised and living in poverty. The cost of providing for an adult raised and living in poverty is nothing compared to the cost of dealing with systemic problems related to homelessness.
You cannot avoid the costs, you can only kick them down the road a ways, where they will only grow.
$500 spent now saves $500,000 later.
Condoms actually cost far less than $500
Your numbers are way off but the point stands haha
They’re not if you consider the cost of funding a whole state’s worth of condoms vs the cost of dealing with unwanted children in the foster care system, then the legal system when some of those children grow up to be criminals after society has failed them.
It’s actually much higher than that.
Yes that’s what I was getting at.
Sorry, I just switched Lemmy clients and i responded to the wrong comment. My reply was meant for the ‘condoms cost less than $500’ comment in this thread.
I agree with you.
(And then I just responded to myself instead of you. I think I need to clear my cache.)
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Are there numbers way off? I paid tens of thousands of dollars in taxes last year which is only possible because my parents had access to food stamps when I was a kid. Over a lifetime it could definitely work out to half a million.
Pretty sure it’s a lot more than that. Food stamps aren’t the only expense.