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The realistic alternative is multigenerational family units sticking together. Grandparents help raise the grand kids instead of day care and baby sitters. Kid

The realistic alternative is multigenerational family units sticking together. Grandparents help raise the grand kids instead of day care and baby sitters. Kids take care of their aging parents. Communities pull together to help each other. There are complexities to it, but without a lot of the artificial financial structures that we have in place (loans, insurance, stocks, government programs) that’s probably what society has to revert to and in many ways it’s the most efficient long term way for society to function.

mschuster91 4y ago
Outright impossible to do with the demands of employment these days - young people are expected to go wherever the jobs are, they cannot stick around in some backwater rural town to take care of their parents. Not to mention that people these days don't have anywhere close to enough children, and it's pretty immoral to force people to breed like rabbits for their retirement.
- ldh0011 4y ago
  Children sticking around isn't the only option. My mom intends to follow me once I've found a place to settle down in the next few years. I'll give her extra money which should allow her to live quite well on top of what she has saved and she's already expressed interest in helping with grandkids if I have any (I probably will at some point). Obviously this plan is made much easier by remote work and good earning potential for tech workers and I suppose some parents will be more attached to where they currently live than my mom is. But multi-generational is not outright impossible, I'd wager a significant chunk of the population could pull it off to varying degrees in one way or another.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  > Outright impossible to do with the demands of employment these days Trylly modern thinking is, if the Market disagrees with Gravity, then Gravity is wrong.

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The realistic alternative is multigenerational family units sticking together. Grandparents help raise the grand kids instead of day care and baby sitters. Kid

by brightball 4y ago

mschuster91 4y ago
Outright impossible to do with the demands of employment these days - young people are expected to go wherever the jobs are, they cannot stick around in some backwater rural town to take care of their parents. Not to mention that people these days don't have anywhere close to enough children, and it's pretty immoral to force people to breed like rabbits for their retirement.
- ldh0011 4y ago
  Children sticking around isn't the only option. My mom intends to follow me once I've found a place to settle down in the next few years. I'll give her extra money which should allow her to live quite well on top of what she has saved and she's already expressed interest in helping with grandkids if I have any (I probably will at some point). Obviously this plan is made much easier by remote work and good earning potential for tech workers and I suppose some parents will be more attached to where they currently live than my mom is. But multi-generational is not outright impossible, I'd wager a significant chunk of the population could pull it off to varying degrees in one way or another.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  > Outright impossible to do with the demands of employment these days Trylly modern thinking is, if the Market disagrees with Gravity, then Gravity is wrong.