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>which is the central thesis here No, not exactly. We're dealing with a historical confluence of long term changes in humanity. Before 1900 or so and some peop
by pixl97 5mo ago
>which is the central thesis here
No, not exactly. We're dealing with a historical confluence of long term changes in humanity. Before 1900 or so and some people had a lot of kids survive and others had a lot of kids die. The population rate increased very slowly, and not from a lack of trying. Then around the time I stated people figured out germs were real, chlorine in water was good, and washing ones hands was a swell idea. The population exploded.
Then you couple this with the technological revolution and the necessity of training huge amounts of the population for specialists jobs if they want to make a living and suddenly a boat load of kids doesn't make any sense at all. And it's getting to the point of the squeeze that having any kids doesn't make a lot of sense for a lot of people.
- inigyou 5mo ago[flagged]
- pixl97 5mo ago>There is no meaning of life Don't half ass it, brace the full absurdity of the universe. The only purpose why we are here is to take entropy from an ordered state to one of maximum disorder.
- amanaplanacanal 5mo agoAs has been pointed out by philosophers for a long time, there is no inherent meaning, beside what you yourself create. For some people, children. For others, art of some sort, or building a business that creates value. For some, pure hedonism, or building relationships and helping the people around them. I'm way older than 50, and don't miss having kids at all.
- antonyt 5mo agoMy impression is that voluntarily child-free people have a very low regret rate, but there are dozens of conflicting studies on this. Interested if you have anything concrete to link to.
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- bethekidyouwant 5mo ago80% of women still have kids. They just only have one kid now.
- bethekidyouwant 5mo agoInteresting I was just saying it was easier to have children in the countryside in ancient Rome then in Rome itself. I doubt rome the city made replacement rate.