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Won't someone please think of the boomers?! (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Young folks have been priced out of housing & healthcare, you can be fired from your job on a whim, food is astronomically expensive, the political climate is tense, your basic human rights could be rescinded at any time, the future of the planet is being murdered by shitty capitalists with 0 regard for human life....

I mean, who wouldn't want to bring a child into this world right now?

Eat shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The parts of the world with the most population growth are generally also the poorest. Richer countries have fewer children, and within those countries richer people have fewer children.

I'm not saying that your concerns about your quality of life are invalid or that they aren't the reason you personally don't want children, but they don't explain this general phenomenon.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

Kids are a retirement strategy in poorer countries, they are the opposite in richer ones.

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