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I mostly agree with the original comment. Most of the western world is anti-family, with rare exceptions (e.g. Finland) with policies that nobody is willing to
by artyom 1y ago
I mostly agree with the original comment. Most of the western world is anti-family, with rare exceptions (e.g. Finland) with policies that nobody is willing to imitate.
And even with great child-raising policies, Finland has a fertility rate as bad as the rest.
Problem is always money. Why society is going to subsidize 2 year of paternity leaves for everyone? Better and easier to complain about "kids nowadays".
It's not just telling people what having kids is or is not, it's that the MONEY spent on family promotion is laughable. Countries with those policies are just putting a bandaid. People is already NOT having children.
The reason all this is "mostly okay anyway" is that everyone normalized being selfish. So money and time and resources are spent on oneself, and that's okay, who's going to require anything different from the government?
Kids are tomorrow's most valuable infrastructure asset. We're just poisoning the water supply.
- Juliate 1y ago> Kids are tomorrow's most valuable infrastructure asset. We're just poisoning the water supply. What tomorrow is there with +4°C in 2100, and what happens in the meantime? (greenhouse gases emissions are not slowing down, we're closer to 2100 than we are to the invention of the transistor).
- lordnacho 1y ago> What tomorrow is there with +4°C in 2100, and what happens in the meantime? The kids will solve it if we give them the right tools. Education, time to learn, confidence.
- Juliate 1y agoI am afraid you (and still to many others) don't grasp the kinetics and the scale of the phenomenon... We're on a trajectory that is not solvable before several centuries at least, probably millennia. It spans more generations that we've had since the fall of the Roman Empire. We're only 2-to-3 generations away from 2100/+4°C. Our kids can merely adapt to, with immensely reduced liveable and cultivable surface area on the planet. The whole culture they'll have to invent/live in to find a "solution" barely exists today, if at all.
- JimDabell 1y ago> I mostly agree with the original comment. Most of the western world is anti-family The original comment said: > Almost everything in modern society is anti-family, by design These are two very different statements.