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  • opposide [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    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

          • Koa_lala [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            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.

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      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.

  • vertexarray [any]
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    4 years ago

    Would be a fitting end to the US empire if they eliminated the working population through microplastic spermicide and crushing debt traps

      • Three_Magpies [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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.

          • AntifaCEO [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            "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!

      • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Never mind that the line has become even more decoupled from peoples wellbeing since 2006.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        that fucking picture. the representative millennial and their typical large backyard with chicken coop

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    '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

  • CommunistBear [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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?

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • AntifaCEO [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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"

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      4 years ago

      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).