Paywall other than the first few lines. But I hope the reason is that people are waking up to the fact that unless you’re in the billionaire club, your life is to slave away at a shit job for shit pay for no reason other than to pay for billionaires mansions and yachts.
Rising cost of living for the masses. Increasing retirement age. Work longer hours for less pay. Yet the wealthy are getting even wealthier?
Why in the piss fuck would people want to have kids?
Plus climate change and ecological collapse have a good chance of killing hundreds of millions, potentially billions if multiple feedback loops compound — not to mention fascism and world/resource wars — so why would you risk subjecting your children to a potential depression era famine and austerity, becoming canon fodder, or subjected to big brother grade authoritarianism?
Also there’s a reasonable chance automation could replace a majority of the human workforce in the next 50-100 years, so why risk your kids living a life of destitution, at best, otherwise dying at the hands of bourgeoisie killbots?
Kids are also expensive as hell. I’d love to have more kids, but I simply can’t afford them. I really don’t understand how people do it. Big family, enjoyable life, retirement: pick one*.
Good.
Paywall other than the first few lines. But I hope the reason is that people are waking up to the fact that unless you’re in the billionaire club, your life is to slave away at a shit job for shit pay for no reason other than to pay for billionaires mansions and yachts.
Rising cost of living for the masses. Increasing retirement age. Work longer hours for less pay. Yet the wealthy are getting even wealthier?
Why in the piss fuck would people want to have kids?
Plus climate change and ecological collapse have a good chance of killing hundreds of millions, potentially billions if multiple feedback loops compound — not to mention fascism and world/resource wars — so why would you risk subjecting your children to a potential depression era famine and austerity, becoming canon fodder, or subjected to big brother grade authoritarianism?
Also there’s a reasonable chance automation could replace a majority of the human workforce in the next 50-100 years, so why risk your kids living a life of destitution, at best, otherwise dying at the hands of bourgeoisie killbots?
Kids are also expensive as hell. I’d love to have more kids, but I simply can’t afford them. I really don’t understand how people do it. Big family, enjoyable life, retirement: pick one*.
*unless you’re a millionaire or above