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Won't someone please think of the boomers?! (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/childfree@lemmy.world

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[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 179 points 1 month ago

Young folks have been priced out of housing & healthcare, you can be fired from your job on a whim, food is astronomically expensive, the political climate is tense, your basic human rights could be rescinded at any time, the future of the planet is being murdered by shitty capitalists with 0 regard for human life....

I mean, who wouldn't want to bring a child into this world right now?

Eat shit.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The parts of the world with the most population growth are generally also the poorest. Richer countries have fewer children, and within those countries richer people have fewer children.

I'm not saying that your concerns about your quality of life are invalid or that they aren't the reason you personally don't want children, but they don't explain this general phenomenon.