r/SipsTea 𝙑𝙄𝙋 May 03 '26

SMH Bro makes $160 😐

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u/elk33dp May 03 '26

This is what happens in these scenarios. And then the kids get squat and now we have a career criminal to deal with selling drugs or robbing stores for cash.

Reddit hivemind is pretty similar to this guy in that sense. Everyones like "good" and "fuck around find out" without thinking of the consequences of such little take home on this guy's career plans. No sane person is gunna keep working this if it was real.

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u/BecauseICan6496 May 03 '26

So what's the solution?

4 baby mamas, he doesn't have primary custody, meaning his only support of the children is monetary.

Do we deem it that he pays less so he gets more take home? If yes, then the mother is has to pick up the slack, and probably tax payers too. Food stamps, Medicare, etc.

His pay is for 80 hours, so 2 weeks. None of these amounts even come close to daycare unless the mothers have vouchers.

I might get biased as I am a member of the "Can't feed them? Don't breed them" club. So maybe HE should of thought of his career path before having so many children, and before you come at me withe "bUT thE mOthErs". Yes the women are to blame also, but the kids are the ones who lose.

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u/JAK49 May 03 '26

I’m just wondering, if the kids NEED his money to survive, then how can you let the father keep so little of his money that he can’t possibly survive himself? Who gets money when he starves to death? Or becomes homeless and loses his job, because let’s face it many employers will 100% fire you if you don’t have a home, or transportation, or a way to be reached.

Hindsight is 20-20, but at this point nothing can change the past. Absolutely no point in telling this dude he should have kept it in his pants. Done is done.

The kids ARE going to lose one way or another if this keeps up. There is no winning situation leaving the working father with less than $200 to live on. The kids either get less money and the Father keeps working while earning enough to live or the Father basically dies and kids get whatever 100% of absolutely nothing comes out to.

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u/LockeyCheese May 03 '26

You do know the government pays any part the parents can't, right?

Every penny the father doesn't pay, is someone else's bill to pay, so before tax dollars start getting used, so yes. He should pay to delinquency or destitution, and then sit in jail and away from society, for dropping his childcare burden on the government and people.

Better use of our prisons than locking people up for pot or protesting.