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Gf and I talk about this a lot. Both want kids but I don't know how to feel about this world anymore. I come from generational wealth so could just buy the kids houses but I feel like it's still going to be super shitty overall
You'd be better off buying them bunkers with unlimited r134a and ac units !
You really shouldn't let the state of the world breed you out of the gene pool.
Also, consider how humans in the past lived. Most of them had way, way worse lives than what the average person experiences today.
It's not even close. Take a look at what life was like before we eradicated Smallpox, for example.
Right now is unironically the safest, most prosperous time in human history to have children.
Is this a sunken cost fallacy? We have come so far and paid so much that we should just continue suffering rather than make a better decision?
Adopt. There are kids who need good homes and you are in a position to provide one.
Yeah but I'm kind of a narcissist and I want to see more of myself is the thing lol
There's more to see of yourself in a child than physical features, just saying. Not that I can talk, I have 2 grown kids
Yeah i know that, i selfishly want to try to spawn a new guitar hero lol
That may be true. But there is a difference between giving away a free home to a random in need vs your own offspring.
I would without a doubt give away my kidney to my mother or father.
Not so much for a random if I was given the choice.
As we don't know how much ressources OP has, I wouldnt want to jump to conclusions. Maybe they'd have only enough to buy a house/flat for a child, maybe two (which is still much).
Yeah I'm not like a multimillionaire. I was thinking more along the lines of two kids I would each buy a 1 bedroom apartment kind of thing
In US having a personal residence and being able to buy 2 more will require about million in of itself alone...
I'm in canada so about 500k per apartment here on vancouver island
Suffering from success. Jpeg
You have money, your kids will be fine. The rest of our kids will be screwed by your kids.
I like to think my family has always paid it forward and I would raise my kids to be the same
That was a really fucked up comment honestly lol
It is a zero sum game under the current rules... that commenter is just stating mathematical reality of how the money is distributed within American society.
I'm glad to hear that, but that's not fool-proof. The Kennedy family was raised to offer strong support to their community and nation, but they still spawned RFK, Jr., who is even despised by his own family.
Touch grass bro
Like you are comparing me to a family as powerful as the kennedy family? You are delusional
I'm not that rich or influential lmao
not like it matters. it can still apply on a smaller scale
You out the gate accuse us of being bad people knowing nothing. Why?
I have like 1m cad so like a small percentage of power in this world lmao