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I'm not sure how to respond to comments like this, because they obviously aren't made in good faith. Potential parents today aren't choosing between "having ki
by keiferski 3y ago
I'm not sure how to respond to comments like this, because they obviously aren't made in good faith.
Potential parents today aren't choosing between "having kids and sending them to slave away in a factory" and "perfect childhood with every toy imaginable and no financial need."
The contemporary Western world is immensely wealthy on a material and informational basis, orders of magnitude beyond even a half century ago. I don't think people understand this at any level, mostly because they don't know much history.
- dale_glass 3y agoThe point is that we drastically increased our standards along with the wealth. And I'd say it's fair to say that at this point the standards increased more than the wealth for a fair amount of people.
- neutronicus 3y agoIt's snarky, but I think it's in good faith. People used to value the labor of their children. At the dystopian tail-end of it, they valued selling it on the market, which is what's being referenced. But, generally, my impression from light reading is people throughout history thought of children as progressing pretty quickly into helpfulness. Now, though, people have jobs children can't help with, ever, which keep them too busy to project-manage children into helpfulness around the house. So people have them exclusively for their company (which, again my impression from light reading, has not been at all the historical norm).