Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtubeRead more about Japan’s population crisis: https://sc.mp/b0v5Japanese Prime Mi...
Yeah... I'm not that guy, I don't think having kids blanket "sucks" but having kids is expensive and if you can't really afford it, then having kids will probably tank your quality of life. If you can afford to give them a decent life and not work yourself half to death in the process, then good, I'm told its incredibly rewarding, but that's a luxury most people don't have. As you said above, its a tragedy.
having kids is expensive and if you can’t really afford it, then having kids will probably tank your quality of life.
We've gutted social services in the US. Cost of living relative to income has gone to absolute shit. But it doesn't have to be this way. People should be more upset at their ability to raise a family being gutted rather than passively accepting the "actually children are shit and I'm better off this way" alienation.
There are few more enduring and more well-recognized forms of communal living than the extended family. And normalizing this single-person-living-in-a-broom-closet lifestyle simply because its cheap is really fucking bad at an existential level.
People should be more upset at their ability to raise a family being gutted rather than passively accepting the “actually children are shit and I’m better off this way” alienation.
Yeah... I'm not that guy, I don't think having kids blanket "sucks" but having kids is expensive and if you can't really afford it, then having kids will probably tank your quality of life. If you can afford to give them a decent life and not work yourself half to death in the process, then good, I'm told its incredibly rewarding, but that's a luxury most people don't have. As you said above, its a tragedy.
We've gutted social services in the US. Cost of living relative to income has gone to absolute shit. But it doesn't have to be this way. People should be more upset at their ability to raise a family being gutted rather than passively accepting the "actually children are shit and I'm better off this way" alienation.
There are few more enduring and more well-recognized forms of communal living than the extended family. And normalizing this single-person-living-in-a-broom-closet lifestyle simply because its cheap is really fucking bad at an existential level.
:order-of-lenin: