S2E9: Is It Too Expensive to Have a Child in 2024?

Is it too expensive to have a child in 2024? Fertility rates have plummeted in Australia's capital cities i.e. where most people live. The leading theory is that things are simply too expensive to consider a child with rental payments and mortgage repayments reaching record highs and the significant cost of childcare services. 

Elsewhere, the Crowdstrike outage bricked over 8.5 million computers worldwide affecting services like banks. Millions of people couldn't access their own money thanks to many banks' insistence on a digital only service. This outage has many questioning whether a digital only economy is the right decision. 

Western Australian renters will be celebrating after new laws were passed allowing them more freedom to make small changes to their homes and keep pets all with the approval of their landlords. 

All this and more on the latest Finance Show with Joe. 

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