It turns out that
it costs about $1,800,000 to raise a child, give or take. By my calculation that is the equivalent of about 360 $5,000 bikes.
The Managing Director and I don't have any children, so I put in the requisition today. There was some back and forth on the matter and it was ultimately decided that I am to be allowed 25 $5,000 bicycles so long as our Tuscan villa has room to house them all.
And if I buy bikes and an Italian villa, I apparently also won't suffer the lower marital satisfaction and
higher depression rates that parents apparently experience. More money,
happier marriage, less depression. I guess I'll just have to accept that we will always be one of those
sad childless couples having to console ourselves by sleeping late, traveling the world, dining out, going to the theater, you know, just being miserable.
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