Comment on Which is worse: not wanting kids, or wanting them too much?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I like kids, and value getting to be a grandpa for a boy from four to ten (then he became a basketball star and didn’t visit much).
But I feel sorry for the alphas and betas. In fact, I feel sorry for zoomers, who I’ve watched grow up. And millennials got a raw deal too.
We don’t know which catastrophic existential risk is going to manifest, as we’re working on several. But one is, and the aftermath is going to be an ordeal.
Needless to say, I’m anti-natalist. I think bringing new life into the world right now is a disservice to them.
seggturkasz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sooooo… you get to have kids. Live a comfy life, while everything goes to shit. But yonger generations should go “quietly into the dark”?
You know this comes across really rude and entitled, right?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
My concerns about catastrophic existential risk are descriptive, not prescriptive
I didn’t have kids. Okay, I had a son, but was separated from him at birth. I married into a family around fifty, and thanks to the troubled economy, the millennial daughter moved in with us, and brought her son.
But it sounds like you think of kids as a means of fulfillment for the parents, rather than autonomous persons of their own. I see that a lot, in our children’s welfare policies, in our attitudes towards education and juvenile crime, in society’s complete disinterested in making society accessible to future generations.
And zoomers and alphas are not feeling the love. The fertility rate in the US dropped below 1.6, which scares the snot out of our owner class. And they’ve cut off immigration, which we’ve depended on for decades to increase our numbers.
The silent generation was also conspicuously small. Three guesses as to why.