I told the doctor that did my vaesctomy that I was doing it to fight white supremacy and they laughed during the operation 🥳 lol
I mean white people themselves are not the problem but capitalism and fascism. Take those away and in like 3 generations white supremacy disappears
People call those who don’t want kids selfish. Perhaps. But what do you call someone who thinks they should duplicate half of themselves? Mother Fucking Teresa?
Going half as far as Horatio
Wouldn’t selfish people want to replicate themselves?
Having kids is the single most selfish thing you can do.
It depends. Some people just really want to have kids to be able to give someone else a great life. To give someone the life that you never had. But under capitalism I don’t know how possible that is unless you are rich
Yes, but they do it in order to fill up a hole in their lives, to have a “greater purpose”, give their lives meaning. Ultimately all we do is to satisfy our desires…and the push towards caring for kids is one of the biologically hardwired desires we evolved having, the reason we do it is not really a lack of ego. Having a family is something people want for themselves, for their own happiness.
I believe it’s literally impossible for a person to not be egoistic without going crazy and/or offing oneself. Even christians who preach about self sacrifice and generosity only do it pushed by the promise of a better afterlife and their own self-interest of wanting to avoid hell and/or being closer to their god.
Having kids will just drive down my wages (both directly through lost sleep, and indirectly through increased competition in the workforce).
how did we let our elders be propagandized like this? and we are literally watching them in the middle of fomenting division between the current younger generation and the rest. always with gen-z this gen-z that, they do this shit every time now, to every generation.
i bet on the next one becoming the bane of our existence because of their risky and whiny attitude and disrespect for their elders once so called gen z starts approaching their 30s. and then a lot of us gobbling it right up and slowly becoming reactionary fucks.
Hot take: if this is the case why do developing nations have significantly higher birth rates than developed ones?
Education. When people know reproduction is not the only goal in life then people will actually start to weigh pros and cons before making the decision to have kids.
I’m not sure if it’s specifically knowing weather or not reproduction is the only goal in life but I do agree it’s an education issue. I’m arguing that It’s not about being poor it’s about education.
It could be a combination of factors, one of them being religiosity and lack of access to birth control.
In undeveloped (overexploited) countries, children are a promise of a better future for poor families. Also in those countries the capitalist concept of nuclear family is not as entrenched, so you have the support of the whole community in rising children.
That is a good point.
I mean it is a no brainer that if people are given a significant break from work (not just maternity/paternity leave for a few months or even a couple of years), and have the ability for there parents to help look after there children people would be more inclined to have kids.
What about developing socialist nations? Since there isn’t the same level of exploitation are there birth rates lower?
Edit: it’s 2.08 in Venezuela, 1.45 in cuba, 1.91 in vietnam, 2.24 in laos. So can confirm socialist countries have a much more moderate birth rate when compared to the rest of the developing world, as well as a higher birth rate compared to most of the developed world.
