“Dating” looks the way it does today because everyone is replaceable when the dating pool has millions of options. Instead of working through a road bump in one’s relationship, you can treat every minor inconvenience as an opportunity to look for someone “better.”
Any individual person can delay having children to enjoy our abundance of everything, and their world will function just fine. But if every individual person neglects to have kids any time soon, the whole system grinds to a halt. The only way to ensure that everyone wins is by everyone having more kids.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 11 months ago
I thought I didn't want to get married. I thought I didn't want to own a home. I thought I didn't want to have kids.
On every point I was wrong. Everything they said I wouldn't want turned out to fill a hole in me that I didn't realize was there. And those same people would tell me that I'm evil for being fulfilled by such things, but I'm not going to apologize for being a human being.
admin@exploding-heads.com 11 months ago
That is a wonderful story.