The biggest problem with the way modern people live IMO is the way people raise kids. It used to be an entire village raising the entire village's kids. That w

The biggest problem with the way modern people live IMO is the way people raise kids. It used to be an entire village raising the entire village's kids. That was easy when everyone shared a language, culture, and food. You could trust the cooking of your neighbor 5 houses away, their standards were the same as yours. Then around the industrial revolution and later, that trust disappeared and it started to be one parent working 8 hours a day and one parent raising the kid (for the middle class), and households largely not helping each other. Today it's both parents working for 8 hours a day, instead of a truly fair society in which each parent working 4 hours and take care of kids for 4 hours. They sold it to us as gender equality ("women and men should both work and both take care of the house" -- sounds great) but instead of redistributing the workload of 8 hours to 4 hours each, they (the landlords, the corporates, the shareholders) took advantage of the situation to overwork both men and women to 8+ or even 10+ or 12+ hours per day when we should all be working 4 if we want a fair, gender-equal society. Add on the problem of unequal pay being given to men and women, the result is usually the women having to give up their career in the name of household income because neither man nor woman's company is interested in letting them work for 4 hours each and the man's company is giving him 3X the woman's salary for the same amount of work. And there's no village to help each other out when parents get sick or want/need to travel without the kids. This is probably the biggest reason I'm most likely not wanting kids. There's just not time nor community resources for it. It doesn't sound like fun.