I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.
“Nothing new under the sun” I suppose!
Yup. Between climate collapse, wealth shift to the ultra wealthy, and the global surge in popularity of right wing extremist authoritarianism, I don’t see things improving any time soon.
Things are rapidly degrading, and intentionally dropping a child into the dumpster fire we’re turning our planet into is an act of cruelty and selfishness that few others measure up to.
Having a vasectomy was probably the best decision I’ve made - not for my sake, but the kid’s and any even less fortunate grandkids and so on.
My own parents have finally fucked off a bit about when their grandchildren are coming, and lecturing me on how I’m cheating myself out of life’s greatest joy or some shit… I think current events have finally become so glaringly bad that even they can’t ignore it, but reminding them constantly about how unfair that would be for the kid was so fucking tiring.
wealth shift to the ultra wealthy
What in the world do you think the Great Depression was?!
extremist authoritarianism
WWII and the Soviet Union?
Climate change isn’t even a unique issue. Humans already survived an ice age, with nothing more than stone age tools.
And I’ll remind you, people were making babies all along.
