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> People never had children to guarantee their future financial stability. AFAICT, that was the primary reason people had children. Not in the sense of "supp
by bryanlarsen 2mo ago
> People never had children to guarantee their future financial stability.
AFAICT, that was the primary reason people had children. Not in the sense of "support me in retirement" because people expected to work until they died, but in the sense of "grow ourselves some workers to help out on the farm" for the poor and "somebody to inherit our title" for the rich.
- inigyou 2mo agoIs there evidence of this urban legend?
- IAmBroom 2mo agoWould millenia of data from primarily agricultural, family-worked farms suffice?
- inigyou 2mo agoSure. Let's see the ancient Egyptian papyrus where poor farmers describe how they actually don't like sex but they need more farmhands.
- karmakurtisaani 2mo agoI'm sorry, but this is absolutely brain dead.
- julienreszka 2mo agoit's not a legend at all. I think you skipped the article I quote near the end. https://julienreszka.com/blog/pensions-buy-fewer-babies-cutting-them-costs-votes/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/pensions-buy-fewer-babies-cutt...
- inigyou 2mo agoThis is AI slop.
- julienreszka 2mo agono it's not
- red-iron-pine 2mo agobots accusing bots of bottery truly a 2026 moment