>>60605772 (OP)60yo here, never had kids because every chick I ever dated was "no, no kids, I don't want the hassles!" FFS, two of them had hysterectomies just so they would never have to deal with the risk of a pregnancy (one technically because PCOS, the other because she was an Ayn Rand Objectivist).
Literally just "made it", finally, after decades of getting wiped out every time The Fed decided to have a dot.com collapse or a second Great Depression, because Bitcoin. I've spent close to 20 years not having any female in my life because I was broke and the only ones who would talk to me were desperate trailer-park landwhales with a herd of preexisting kids they wanted someone to support.
I'm in Argentina looking at IVF clinics and the surrogate system. Most of this didn't exist when I was younger (surrogacy was a weird and rare thing until maybe a decade ago AFAIK, and seems to have only become a way for women to make money once gay men started getting married).
I'm planning on having as many children as I can afford to buy, and putting them up for adoption because I'm not going to last long enough to see them to adulthood. To me, the money is meaningless -- I've lived so long at near poverty that I really don't care about being able to live on an estate with swans and fountains and servants and Lambos and sheeeit. Having children, having a stake in the future, is what I always wanted and was never able to find anyone to do so with.
Whatever money is left over is going into a trust to pay out to these kids when they become old enough to have a use for it (beyond "I want the latest iThing, Daddy!"). Like, graduate school, starting a business, putting a downpayment on a house, whatever.
If Saylor is right and Bitcoin will be at $13,000,000 by 2045, I should be able to have five kids and leave each of them enough to build whatever future they want for themselves.
I wish I could have kids with picrelated but I'm not that level of "made it".