putting a child in a world that will probably be in ruin by the end of their life
My children are grateful that I gave them life, and they are glad to be alive.
Life is far from perfect, but a person should get an opportunity to live it.
As it is, the majority of new babies are born into the worst conditions, and many of what would be the most advantaged babies are simply never conceived.
Is that really a rational way to think about procreating? Or, like TP4 says - if you don't want discomfort, don't go outside.
It probably is way to nihilistic and not very rational if I'm being honest now but I just want to know if there is progress to set society up in a forward direction when it comes to stuff like climate change if I ever want to have children. Plus humans aren't rational when it comes to emotional responses which my statement was.
Also this is quite a minor thing compared to the economic pressures of having a child, which is the biggest factor for me and a lot of people for not wanting children, especially since things aren't really going in a upward direction when it comes to stuff like affordable housing and such.
This is the intention of late stage capitalism, to make the working class subservient to the ruling one until the system basically becomes a monarchy.
It's not so villainous/ premeditated. Even most rich ass-#*les agree that in general, monarchies, highly concentrated power is in the long run BAD for business as it increases the ratio of mismanagement.
I agree that a lot of people don't really see what they are doing as villainous, but rather strive for the biggest profit margins, which is prison labour in the us is the most cost efficient labour for businesses, cause it's basically legal slavery.
anti-natalism might be the toughest topic in history to debate
How do we incentivize a young population who is poorer than the last generation and years behind financially than their parents (at the same time in their lives) to take on children who are also more expensive than they have ever been coupled with daycare insecurity due to lack of options or spots in existing daycares?
it's really simple, just make it economically viable for people to have children, but that eats into corporate profits, and we can't have that.
Just in general I'm sorry for being quite negative there (surprisingly I don't like to be that negative, especially recently where I've been the happiest I've been in a long time, it was quite sudden too) but I don't really feel like things are gonna get better in the near future, unless drastic change happens (which it definitely can, especially with this upward trend of more progressiveness in young people and also increasingly amount of union action) and I hope that positive change happens.