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> I learn new things every day, constantly move my horizons. I couldn't do that if I were tied down with a family. Try explaining these concepts to children. N
by tomp 3y ago
> I learn new things every day, constantly move my horizons. I couldn't do that if I were tied down with a family.
Try explaining these concepts to children. Now that’s a challenge!
> And once people become parents their sex life becomes pretty much null and void too.
I can guarantee that’s not true for everyone. Of course, maybe even some single couples get bored of having sex, and maybe even single men see their libido drop with age!
> For environmental reasons our population should be stable, not growing rapidly.
That’s a common trope pushed by degrowth activists like Greenpeace, but not actually true. Technology gives us means to so more with less, so we are far from the limits of even what Earth can support, let alone our solar system.
- wkat4242 3y ago> Try explaining these concepts to children. Now that’s a challenge! Could be but I don't want to :) even in work I don't have the patience for training others because it slows me down. > I can guarantee that’s not true for everyone. Of course, maybe even some single couples get bored of having sex, and maybe even single men see their libido drop with age! Of course it's not the case for everyone but on average it is for sure. All my friends say they simply don't have enough time or opportunity. Let alone doing more wild stuff like going to sensuality resorts or swinger clubs. It becomes more of a standard up/down "let's get this over with before the kid wakes up" kinda thing. > Technology gives us means to so more with less, so we are far from the limits of even what Earth can support, let alone our solar system. Well it hasn't actually delivered that. Right now we're doing more with much more. Look at the ocean full of plastic, the ever rising oil use. The climate crisis. If technology can give us those means it should really start doing so pretty soon before we really screw the world beyond repair. And really, exponential growth has to stop somewhere. Eventually it has to. Better to do it before the absolute limits are reached and it becomes another acute crisis like we have now with the climate.
- michaelhoney 3y agoNo, we’re fucking up the planet pretty badly, and our impact is (consumption x population).
- sokoloff 3y agoTechnology may give us those means, but we seem prone to use most of those advances to do much more, reducing or even reversing the overall savings.