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> this situation could only have arose in the first place because there is some kind of systemic reason for parents to not really care about the wellbeing of th
by mschuster91 1y ago
> this situation could only have arose in the first place because there is some kind of systemic reason for parents to not really care about the wellbeing of their offspring.
Yeah, guess what, like needing to work 2 full-time 40 hour jobs and having to deal with commute and chores on top of that, not to mention overtime or on-call. Modern capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with raising children, but by the time it crashes down it will be too late.
But hey, the current generation of Boomers enjoys a stonks-go-up portfolio.
- aianus 1y agoMy parents and grandparents grew up in communism and they had to work full time jobs (and help bring in the harvest in the fall) with a side of hours standing in queues to buy meat. Meanwhile modern capitalism will allow me to work as little as I want after a decade or two of accumulating capital. Huge improvement all in all
- mschuster91 1y ago> Meanwhile modern capitalism will allow me to work as little as I want after a decade or two of accumulating capital. That's not an improvement at a societal scale, that's the thing. Without those in working age actually working and generating economic activity, the system becomes nothing more than a house of cards waiting to collapse. Capitalism, especially modern rabid capitalism, depends on the illusion of infinite growth - an illusion that can only fail, given modern demographic trends and resource scarcity. And it is completely unsuited for the coming era when a lot of work will be done outright by machines.