3 ms·

I'd be fine with half that. What luxuries justify spending 8 hours a day dealing with insane corporate bullshit?

• hollerith 1y ago
  A wife and a couple of kids. Having more options in life, e.g., to pick up and move.
  • msgodel 1y ago
    No one is doing that anymore regardless.
  • toomuchtodo 1y ago
    https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/50th-edition-spring-2025 https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/50th-edition-spring-2025 ("Traditional life goals are shifting, with only 48% of young Americans saying having children is important") https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/msu-study-finds-number-of-us-nonparents-who-never-want-children-is-growing https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/msu-study-finds-number-of... (“We found that the percentage of nonparents who don’t want any children rose from 14% in 2002 to 29% in 2023,” said Jennifer Watling Neal, professor in MSU’s psychology department and co-author of the study. “During the same period, the percent of nonparents who plan to have children in the future fell from 79% to 59%.”) https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-data https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/adults-no-children-why-pew-... ("64% of young women say they just don't want children, compared to 50% of men.") A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/28/a-record-high-share-of-40-year-olds-in-the-us-have-never-been-married/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/28/a-record-... The childfree are ungovernable - https://beneaththepavement.substack.com/p/the-childfree-are-ungovernable-capitalism https://beneaththepavement.substack.com/p/the-childfree-are-... (us specific, ymmv)