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Can't lie, it triggers me so much to read it's about money. It's not. Society has changed, values have changed, and arguably it's good for the planet if there
by epolanski 3y ago
Can't lie, it triggers me so much to read it's about money.
It's not.
Society has changed, values have changed, and arguably it's good for the planet if there's less of us.
Only loser is the neverending idea of endless economic growth.
We need different economic models. If we'll be poorer, so be it.
- lainga 3y agoIn an Opinionway poll of 11,000 people for the association, two-thirds who did not have children said that they wanted to
- epolanski 3y agoYes, then they blame the economy while paying their 50k euro car lease and commenting on Facebook on their 1k phone about their 4k trip to Japan. I see so many people in Europe my age as I described blaming it on money yet spending like there's no tomorrow.
- wharvle 3y agoI could have bought, say, a Tesla with cash for just what our three kids cost in medical expenses for their first five years of life. And ours weren’t that expensive. I could take a $4k trip to Japan every year for the next 20 years and not approach childcare costs before they were in school. Extra monthly housing costs for a good school district versus a more-conveniently-located and similarly-safe but worse-schools area nearby would cover the payment on a pretty damn good car. US perspective (if you couldn’t tell from the reference to high healthcare costs) but still. Kids are crazy-expensive.
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- cassepipe 3y agoWhen people say they have no money they really mean they have no money to live according to the standard of living they think they deserve
- retinaros 3y agono one in france can afford a 50k car lease. think more like 25k. america left us in the dust a few decades ago and we cannot be compared to the us anymore. we are indeed getting poorer
- retinaros 3y agothen you should go to africa advocate there to help your cause because the problem you describ is happening there not in europe
- dw_arthur 3y agoPeople may say they want kids but their actions say another thing. I always get a chuckle out of seeing right wing people talking confidently about how they could increase birth rates.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoExplain- is it funny because right wing people are not increasing the birth rate?
- dw_arthur 3y agoWell a bunch of men proposing that they have a solution to make women have babies is ridiculous on its face. And decreased birth rates are a worldwide phenomenon cutting across all different types of societies, economies, and races. I think it's pretty clear that right wing droid #3491 does not have a solution to decreased birth rates.
- retinaros 3y agoi think you might want to check your claim about this being a worldwide phenomenon but then it might hurt your personal beliefs and you might be seen as intolerant for pushing your ideas into the people you claim to protect and you will end up being like a colonizer. right?
- epolanski 3y agoWho's right wing droid?
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-be... | https://archive.is/ek0dz https://archive.is/ek0dz ("Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists") https://www.ariababu.co.uk/p/beliefs-that-kill-birth-rates https://www.ariababu.co.uk/p/beliefs-that-kill-birth-rates ("Beliefs that kill birth rates")