Something I see super regularly, and find really disturbing, is how a young person 25-35 will post something, or even say it in person, like "I really want to have kids with my partner and start a family, but I just can't feel safe doing that with how unstable the world it," and proceed to list all their super realistic concerns and fears. And immediately someone will chirp up with some variation of "no one promised you stability or safety! You need to make it on your own! Everyone finds a way to have kids." Like these people do realize this isn't like a one off phenomenon, like household formation and having children are at world historic and systemic lows. Do these people want society to stop? Like people wanting to have children is like the most normal thing in the world, and wanting some small measure of stability and safety seems the least anyone is entitled to.

It's just so ducking weird to see, cus so often these are the same people freaking out cus there aren't enough kids. I just don't fucking understand people. I dunno what I am asking I just need to vent because people fucking confuse me.

  • Hexbear2 [any]
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    3 years ago

    I think about this a lot. Maybe because I'm approaching middle age.

    Single, childless, etc.

    I don't get it. Who from our generation in their right mind would want kids or a family? Life is so short and our existence is so precocious. You are forced to spend 40 hours a week (MINIMUM) working for someone else doing things you probably don't like to survive, and then you get home and have to do your own things to survive, and you can't afford a family or a decent home in a decent neighborhood. Why are we even trying?

    So many SMART young people have figured it out, societal drop-outs are at all time highs, living at home with parents is at all time highs.

    Life was never meant to be this way, people just respond the best they can to a shitty situation they had no place in making. Everyone wants something different. Everyone, whether right or left, seems to have society and even the smallest match will light the fire. The 2020/21 protests are just a series of protests, these protests will keep growing.