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Why would any young people want a kid in the US? No healthcare, no paid leave, hospital bills, college tuition in the 10000s minimum, can’t afford a home, can’t get time off from work to spend with the kid, and a plethora of other reasons
The earth's future is bleak for comfortable living. I can't imagine wanting to roll the dice on having a kid that could live 60+ years. The earth in 2081 is a scary thing to think about
I worked directly with kids of all ages for over a decade (until Covid hit). I think they're great, but I also am mindful of climate change
comfortable living
antinatalism is the petite bourgeois version of family planning that Lenin hated.
The earth in 2081 is a scary thing to think about
have you tried organizing for our childrens future?
I don't really care what Lenin hated, I'm talking about the Earth currently and the trajectory it's on.
I think a more honest representation of the position is, "it's gonna be hard and I don't want to sign an unborn child up for that"
lol, you are just determined to take anything said in bad faith
yeah once you have that kid the increased financial burden and time suck will definitely allow you to do a lot of organizing for our future, like a whole lot
someone is going to have to lead the wasteland guerillas that ambush the Ameri-mechs in 2081 :amerikkka: :posadas:
I think our generation is growing up believing that due to their predicament and political climate, we have nothing to look forward to. It's a void. If we manage to improve the world somewhat I think the generations growing up in that world can see the joy and importance of raising the new generation. If not, why bother at all? Just accelerate into our collective doom then. By the way, I think our views of child raising is extremely recent and toxic. I think the way it used to be, a child being effectively raised by the community is something we lost to capitalist alienation. The mother raising one or more children alone while the father slaves away at work? And nowadays, both parents that slave away with barely any time or money to raise their kids. It's just regressive I think.
I don't think I'm an anti-natalist. I also don't know if I want a kid/kids. I'm more upset that the option was denied to me for some stupid reason like capitalism.
Ah yes, everybody who doesn't want kids personally or who cannot imagine having the time, money and energy to raise kids as an increasingly pauperized worker in a late capitalist society, or who rejects the cishetnormative concept of the nuclear family while not seeing a viable alternative to that in our current society must be some ecofash believing in debunked ideas of a Malthusian catastrophy. Sure thing, definitely all just part of a general anti-natalist tendency.
Oof. It's been a long day, i'm sorry if you didn't mean it like that.
Would be a fitting end to the US empire if they eliminated the working population through microplastic spermicide and crushing debt traps
“We have no idea why people aren’t having kids that cost around $300,000 dollars to raise until they are 18.”
/pol/: This is the work of jewish magic and not capitalism. Capitalism is fine and should absolutely never be touched.
Honestly surprised to find that you were the only person here to reference the genocide narrative from Zenz.
Archive for any of you who don't want to click the WSJ.
It's funny to see a center-right paper cover this and they somehow manage to talk about the bad financial conditions, but nothing about how most millennials have no hope for the future.
The WSJ's solution to damn near anything is to get the line to go up. If line go up, surely the kids will buy houses again!
edit: ah yes, behold the typical millennial in their usual, normal environment
Nah, home ownership is no longer even the bait on the hook anymore. They truly want to normalize a nation of permanent renters -- capital is perfectly happy if Blackstone is the one buying all the homes in my view.
"They will forgive debt "
Oh no, looks you ran out of Freedom CreditsTM! We can offer you this one time exception, after completion of a ONE MONTH mandatory service obligation!
Never mind that the line has become even more decoupled from peoples wellbeing since 2006.
that fucking picture. the representative millennial and their typical large backyard with chicken coop
'Fueling' is a funny way of saying 'victims of due to having their future fucked by capitalism' but I guess you have to keep headlines short and snappy
leftists celebrating their own failure to improve anyone's conditions
Fucking good. I could never imagine wanting to bring a kid into this god forsaken country. If I already don't have the time, energy, and money to take care of myself then how in the hell could I do all of that and then some with no change in any of those things?
I hate to have this attitude, but if shit isn't going to get better I want some sign that it will at least maybe end, so i tend to be kind of happy in a shitty way when i see stories like this. It sucks that people aren't able to move into the different stages of life that they want to though, simply because capitalism has outlived its usefulness but the gerontocracy that rules us isn't wiling to hang up the old hat, or even forgive people's fucking student loans.
I think this is Accelerationism-lite. I go back and forth from "Haha this sucks, but atleast now everything getting worse won't be so boring"
im kind of weirded out that 1979 would be as low as now? it was just inflation goddamm
It was a lot more than "just inflation". 1970-1980 was a pretty bad time for most people (as opposed to the 1980s which were great for the bourgeoisie and not so great for workers).
As time goes on, as the earth decays, as our sun sets for its final time, as the universe expands into the infinite blackness, as the concept of humanity, culture, wisdom, and love, all become lost in the abyss, a single message will be sent out. The last gasp of any intelligence known within our solar system...
(__)_)===========D~ that's a rocketship. AND POST. Shit.
Why would I ever want to bring another wh*te yank into the world
