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Raising kids is the "default" choice. More than 50% of people do it. Getting rich or traveling for your life are much rarer, hence more interesting

Edit: ah yes downvotes. Think about it this way. You meet someone with 6 fingers on each hand, kinda interesting right? Minutes later you meet someone with 5 fingers, also interesting?



Having kids? Probably not. Raising them? Probably yes. Same with fingers: having them is more interesting if they can do something novel with them (say, play an instrument). But this being HN, I know plenty of people that travel a lot (no idea if that’s typical).


Most rich people I’ve met are on average thoroughly ordinary. Its what made me realize I deserve wealthy as much as they do.


Raising kids is what every single one of your ancestors did. It’s entirely orthogonal to those other things.


Sure it depends on you audience though.




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