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Can you go into more detail, what do you mean hedonic treadmill? I'm 30 and I've never felt like having kids. I just, idk, I just don't look at kids and go "yea

• cryoshon 11y ago
  I'm not sure you're the "childfree" demographic, actually-- they tend to mention it to everyone they encounter surreptitiously, as though they are anti-reproduction rather than reproduction-apathetic. That's just my experience with them, though.
  • SCdF 11y ago
    Jeez, I've found the key is to make sure if a conversation steers toward it steer away, because when people have found out they find every excuse to show me pictures of how cute their kids are etc so they can say "see, now don't you want kids?". Makes me feel like a vegetarian at a bbq
• jbob2000 11y ago
  I think his point was, that you can only go so far pleasing yourself. Eventually you want others to experience life's pleasures, having fulfilled yourself.
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  • tptacek 11y ago
    To be clear, there are other ways to solve that problem than raising children. Raising children just happens to be one of the more straightforward ways off the treadmill. And, equally obviously, I hope, it's pretty easy to stay on the treadmill even after you have kids, which is a trap worth knowing about and avoiding. It took me a bunch of years to figure that out (we had our first when I was 22).