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Did that feel weird to anyone? For me the TL:DR is "Everyone should have kids because I really liked having kids." And perhaps if you're rich and comfortable t
by UmYeahNo 2y ago
Did that feel weird to anyone? For me the TL:DR is "Everyone should have kids because I really liked having kids."
And perhaps if you're rich and comfortable that's a fine argument.
But not seeing mention in this essay of things like climate change, the increasingly real prospect of a dystopic future, the widening income gap, anti-captialism, extremism, and a general bleakness of outlook felt by young people today feels myopic.
In the US, I don't see or hear a lot of optimism for the future from Millenials or Zoomers. What I do hear from them is prospect of bringing a child into a world running out of clean water, clean air, and arable land just to work in an ever more hostile world for billionaires who think you're expendable is a pretty good set of reasons not to bring a child into the world who will have to deal with it long after we're all gone. And, after the last pandemic there is little appetite for bringing a child into this world.
- talldayo 2y agoYeah, it's the typical self-important Substack blogger as transposed to another paid platform. There's nothing wrong with a little autobiographical blogging, but this crosses over into vapid objectivism real fast. Posts like this always make me wonder if the author ever knew what it was like to skip dinners on Thursday growing up.