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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect we’ll see fewer SAHMs as the value of having two paychecks will become more apparent.  All those women married to high earning lawyers who thought they were set are going to realize how quickly that big paycheck can disappear. [/quote]

Meh. The people who can truly afford to have a SAH parent are also smart enough to have figured all of this out. Most of us have mitigated the risks before we made the switch from a dual income home to a single income home.  I am a SAHM and we are very favorably situated in this pandemic and doing very well. We have lived on 1/2 what my DH has made for years. We are completely sorted out in terms of liquid cash, mortgage, retirement, medical and college.

In DMV at least, when an educated woman chooses to become a SAHM its because the family has cash reserves and insurance. This is not Podunk, Trumplandia. No one is a teen mom here.  I hope the high earning lawyer who lost his job has a lot of cash socked away.  It not then I can only laugh at the entitlement that made them think that frugality is beneath them.[/quote]

You sound totally clueless. There are plenty of families where the SAHM couldn’t make enough to justify childcare and had little interest in working and a high-earning spouse so it was an easy decision. It does not mean they had millions socked away so they could withstand any economic crisis. Do you know how many SAHMs had to go back to work after the 2008 recession?[/quote]

You are right, of course, but I wouldn't bother. That PP is astonishingly self-absorbed, but any rational reader can see that. She doesn't possess the ability to extrapolate outside of her own immediate frame of reference.

I mean, do you really even want to try to reason with somebody who boasts about how she wants to laugh at the real and awful financial troubles of families? It's like trying to reason with a pit viper.[/quote]

Well, this pit viper has a nest egg that was built by living frugally so I am ok. What about you?

I think it is a sign of entitlement that people think they don't have to to live frugally and that they deserve every luxury. I have a friend who bought a million dollar home and has very little savings. I can understand that people who are making less than 100K are struggling to make end meet, but a 4-member family with HHI of 300K+ is struggling? Why? Well  because they were travelling internationally and taking luxurious vacations and they think they deserve all material luxuries that the universe has to offer. I am sorry but I cannot muster up enough sympathy for them. I will save my sympathy for people who are low earners and actually are struggling to make ends meet.

It will be interesting to see how all of  this will play out. [/quote]

I stand corrected. It is like trying to reason with a dim and slow pit viper.

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I stand corrected too. It will be amusing to see a lot of these high earners and high spenders consumers crash and burn.  It is height of privilege and entitlement if you could not save on an HHI of 300K+.  Yes, some of you should go back to work. Being a financially secure SAHM or FIRE does not happen without some material sacrifices. You can still live very well but I am saving my sympathies for people who actually do not make enough. Having a 6 figure HHI is a lot of money. 
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I don't believe you have the ability to have either empathy or sympathy for anyone, regardless of income.[/quote]

I make a rational decision to not feel sorry for entitled and stupid POSs who are "struggling" on an  HHI of 300K in this pandemic.  :wink:  I also expect people like you to not quarantine or wear masks in public. [/quote]

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