06.09.06
Practical economics of wives and children
Pronatality has a price tag. But prices differ in many ways and means. Urban / commercial lifestyle is too expensive and knows no limits.
That is why I promote provincial living, nutritious food, holistic health, no tv, no commercialism.
Fact is you can be earning P 50,000 / month in Manila and your urban wife will complain you do not make enough. On the contrary, your provincial wife living in a 4th class municipality will bear you all the children you want with P 20,000 a month.
Therefore the choice of wives is important. Depending on how and where women are raised, they are stuck in that class of expenditure they are used to. Do not expect an urban woman used to her daddy earning P 200,000 / month to settle for anything less when she gets married. These spoiled women are potentially fatal to our pronatal ambitions. Women marry up, that is their psychology. The only way this kind of woman will be happy is with a man who earns more than her father does.
Given the above, a woman who is used to a father earning only P 5,000 / month in their backwater province will be thrilled to marry a man who earns P 10,000 / month.
My sons, know these simple facts of life. My daughters, now you know why I try very hard not to spoil you.
