That’s why I say (sarc):
“I have a dog”: I don’t need children that get in the way of sex, career, vacation, mess up my figure, cost money, are a pain in the rear, and cause me to get committed to this nuiscense for the next 18 years.
But the real problem is that in our culture today, we advertise that mentality: Friends, Sex and the City...
No doubt she’s a beauty at 56, but she’s a perfect example:
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We socially and economically reward this way of thinking.
Those with children are basically paying for the retirement and welfare of those that have few or no children.
You can’t eat money.
If you had a mountain of 20 trillion dollars behind your house, but were the last human alive, what value other than tinder to start a fire with would that money have to you?
Money is no more than an abstract concept representing human time.
Those without children will one day be fed, housed, clothed, rolled down the hall in a wheelchair by the children of others.
But in the meantime, those with children get a $500 (that’s what it was last I checked) tax deduction. Hahahaha
All true, my point is how many people do we need in today’s society, farms take less labor, automation requires less labor to make widgets.
Hell was in the airport a few months back and there was a full automated pizza kiosk
Right now there is a “glut” of elderly, that won’t be the case in a few decades.
Much of our “demographics” right now contribute zero and are in fact net negatives and feral