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created by Dipsi1010 on 15/04/2022 at 16:29 UTC
5557 upvotes, 81 top-level comments (showing 25)
Comment by Flair_Helper at 15/04/2022 at 19:46 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
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Comment by goldengluestick at 15/04/2022 at 16:44 UTC
491 upvotes, 8 direct replies
Have a friend that drives a semi. Him and his wife had a pretty good amount for a down payment on a place. Then housing went crazy. They were outbid on every house they put an offer on. Then he had a seizure so his license got suspended. Now the down payment money is just about gone. He most likely will never be able to drive a semi again so he has to find a new career. He said the possibility of them starting a family now is pretty much in the trash.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/04/2022 at 17:15 UTC
249 upvotes, 3 direct replies
whats the point of having kids when you need both parents to work in order to even survive and raise the child ?
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this is an absolute joke
Comment by DublinCheezie at 15/04/2022 at 16:32 UTC
89 upvotes, 2 direct replies
When someone is so accustomed to entitlement, consequences are about as relatable as Latin language rap.
(And I’m not talking about Millennials, obviously)
Comment by Rhythm_Flunky at 15/04/2022 at 17:24 UTC
57 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Uhhh bootstraps or something!
Comment by _salthazar at 15/04/2022 at 17:55 UTC
42 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The way things are going in the USA, soon we won’t have the ability to choose when/whether we have babies, so… problem solved?
Comment by walrus_operator at 15/04/2022 at 16:40 UTC
38 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I wish her summary wasn't so true
Comment by [deleted] at 15/04/2022 at 18:04 UTC
41 upvotes, 3 direct replies
At my age (26), my pops (52) was able to afford buying a plot of land and was able to build a house. Got married and have 2 kids.
I'm 26 now and while my pay is enough for a single person, I wouldnt be able to afford anything he was able to when he was my age.
Comment by LizaRhea at 15/04/2022 at 18:21 UTC
75 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Possible conspiracy theory here - anyone else thinking about how Roe V Wade has been a thing for a loooooong time, the voter bases/belief system in the southern states haven’t changed, so opinions on abortion in the southern states haven’t changed…. But they are just now pushing anti-abortion laws after the top business analysts have started complaining that Millenials and younger are choosing not to have kids?
I’m suspicious of the timing of these laws that target undereducated, lower income people who don’t have the ability to travel outside of their area. It just seems too convenient for businesses that rely on cheap labor and compliant populations to make their profits that the laws are suddenly changing to force low income people into having more low income children right after the analysts warned that is not having children was going to affect the work force population in the next 20 years.
Comment by TheRealSeanDonnelly at 15/04/2022 at 16:58 UTC
82 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Boomers are well aware there will be nobody around to fund their pensions and change their geriatric diapers, and are busily hastening the apocalypse as insurance against such an outcome.
Comment by beaker12345 at 15/04/2022 at 18:00 UTC
23 upvotes, 0 direct replies
That’s why they have to stop abortions and force people to have people.
Comment by mlo9109 at 15/04/2022 at 18:17 UTC
18 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Oh, they are having kids. They just can't afford them. Meanwhile, those being smart and choosing not to have them for that reason are considered to be overreacting. I wanted a big family until COVID hit when I turned 30 and didn't feel so great about still being single then.
Seeing friends parent through the pandemic and deal with food/supply shortages made me grateful to have just myself to care for. Yet, so many of my friends and family members had pandemic babies, which made me question if I really was "overreacting" to it all.
Not to mention, after COVID hit came a bunch of political violence (insurrection, BLM, Ukraine, etc.) I know people had babies during worse times (WWII, the Depression, etc.) but those times did end. I'm not so sure that things will get better for us. If anything, it'll be worse.
Comment by abzzzzilla at 15/04/2022 at 18:05 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
And a lot of people ARE still having babies (no thank you)
Comment by FangJustice at 15/04/2022 at 18:30 UTC
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Boomer: We want grandkids!
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Millenials: So did we.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/04/2022 at 17:25 UTC
46 upvotes, 5 direct replies
Our planet isn’t dying, we are.
Comment by xtnh at 15/04/2022 at 17:38 UTC
34 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Think this is the reason corporate-back politicians are fighting birth control?
Russia even kidnapped Ukrainians- think they are trying to up their population?
Comment by AlternativeShadows at 15/04/2022 at 17:53 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm not planning to ever have a kid. Maybe adopt, if I know I can afford it.
Comment by VexisArcanum at 15/04/2022 at 18:05 UTC
12 upvotes, 1 direct replies
"It's a woman's job to have babies"
Aka "no one wants to work anymore"
Comment by [deleted] at 15/04/2022 at 17:48 UTC
33 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I make good money, but still can't afford our house and baby bills. So we aren't getting married until after the baby is born so that we can have affordable "free" insurance. She also had to go to part-time at her job so that she didn't make too much money to be eligible.
It's making decisions like these that remind me how awful the cost of healthcare is in the US.
Comment by Foreign-Candidate-96 at 15/04/2022 at 18:11 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The corporate oligarchs have reached a point of self-delusion that they consider your labor (and your loyalty) rightfully theirs. And the fact that you choose not to participate in their games despite OWING them your money is somehow cheating them.
Comment by s-kane at 15/04/2022 at 17:17 UTC
51 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I feel like consciously bringing a child into this environmental downward spiral is tantamount to child abuse
Comment by [deleted] at 15/04/2022 at 18:31 UTC
7 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by unitedshoes at 15/04/2022 at 18:33 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Real fun how the same people who love to insist that supply and demand are totally immutable laws of physics never seem to get it when that law applies to anything outside of the very very narrow range where it specifically benefits them.
You want people to have babies, but you have pushed for policies that made raising a family unreasonably expensive. Ergo, people have fewer babies. Ergo, if you want people to have more babies, perhaps you should...?
Comment by Environmental-Pop802 at 15/04/2022 at 18:38 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Now they taking away abortions. They gonna make us have babies one way or another
Comment by dorkfaceclown at 15/04/2022 at 18:38 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The only reason this gets brought up is that boomers are feeling the pinch as they retire and realize that the greed of their generation and prior generations is the reason why people, specifically millennials, can't afford anything - including having children and starting families. They need us and our offspring to sustain them.
They are also the same ones who shit on people for going to college to try and create a better life for themselves (financially) and mock us for having student loan debt. While their mediocre asses reaped the benefits of lower cost of living that allowed them to work mundane jobs that paid enough for them back then to live comfortably and have children. However, those same mundane jobs pay shit in today's world, cost of living is higher and their sorry asses can't afford retirement without government assistance because they weren't able to save enough. Maybe if they planned better for their future 30 years ago they wouldn't be fucked now and need millennials to pump out babies so the labor market can take care of them.
