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Why aren't you creating more workers??

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    A friend of mine has three kids and works 70 hours a week. He is not able to make enough to support his family, and social services have been cut so much that his only option is to take out a personal loan, which will only make his problem worse.

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    14 hours leaves you barely 2 hours of personal time in a day. That's barely enough to just eat and maybe relax but then if you have 3 kids even that time is gone taking care of them. How and why would anyone put themselves through this, like after the first or second kid wouldn't your own limits become apparent

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    • E [email protected]

      You said ban birth control and porn? Got it.

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      So that's why suddenly there's all this interest in banning porn

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      • J [email protected]

        Growing up, I was of the mindset that I would have got married and started a family by this point in my life. But as of the last few years, my thoughts have done just about a 180.

        Even if I was currently with someone/married, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to raise kids in this day and age in the US (the bullet dodged me when my ex-girlfriend used plan b after we got intimate without protection). I think best case scenario for me now would be DINK, but gotta find someone that can put up with my dumpster fires first.

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        Same dink is my dream but hard to find partners who are into it, or who you like and who like you

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          I'm trying to get pregnant, but it's kinda hard when you're a guy. I won't stop trying, tho. 🫡

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          • B [email protected]

            14 hours leaves you barely 2 hours of personal time in a day. That's barely enough to just eat and maybe relax but then if you have 3 kids even that time is gone taking care of them. How and why would anyone put themselves through this, like after the first or second kid wouldn't your own limits become apparent

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            14 hours leaves you barely 2 hours of personal time in a day

            You've misspelled "commute"

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              14 hours leaves you barely 2 hours of personal time in a day

              You've misspelled "commute"

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              Yeah didn't think about that but that's probably another 2 hours of energy spent on driving, because everything is spread out and there's no good public transportation options outside of specific areas

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              • kolanaki@pawb.socialK [email protected]

                I'm trying to get pregnant, but it's kinda hard when you're a guy. I won't stop trying, tho. 🫡

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                Never give up 💪

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                • kolanaki@pawb.socialK [email protected]

                  I'm trying to get pregnant, but it's kinda hard when you're a guy. I won't stop trying, tho. 🫡

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                  Auto-insemination?

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                  • S [email protected]

                    This raises birth rates

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                    I was born with a penis but Luigi Mangione activated my ovaries

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                    • balderdash9@lemmy.zipB [email protected]
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                      I want biological kids, and I'm right about the point in my life where it would make the most sense to have them. But whenever family asks about it, I tell them I'm not raising children in this kind of administration. They try to suggest that it's not that bad and I stand firm that they're not seeing grandbabies until the government stops being so fashy.

                      Actually, millennials could probably hold our hypothetical babies hostage, see what's more important to them.

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                      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksA [email protected]

                        I want biological kids, and I'm right about the point in my life where it would make the most sense to have them. But whenever family asks about it, I tell them I'm not raising children in this kind of administration. They try to suggest that it's not that bad and I stand firm that they're not seeing grandbabies until the government stops being so fashy.

                        Actually, millennials could probably hold our hypothetical babies hostage, see what's more important to them.

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                        Women have a biological clock on them, makes no sense waiting for different admin.

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                        • kolanaki@pawb.socialK [email protected]

                          I'm trying to get pregnant, but it's kinda hard when you're a guy. I won't stop trying, tho. 🫡

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                          Nothing is impossible.

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                          • K [email protected]

                            Track everything people do and arrest them for unauthorised opinions? Got it.

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                            The proliferation of unathorized opinions is threatening democracy! Doubleplus ungood.

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                            • N [email protected]

                              A friend of mine has three kids and works 70 hours a week. He is not able to make enough to support his family, and social services have been cut so much that his only option is to take out a personal loan, which will only make his problem worse.

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                              In the USA? If yes, the US is a sick country in regard to income distribution, labor laws, healthcare and public services. However, if your friend voted MAGA, zero sympathy and he/she can carry on.

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                                Women have a biological clock on them, makes no sense waiting for different admin.

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                                Not disagreeing with your point, but women can have children until menopause. It gets riskier and harder but not as much as most people commonly believe. "Biological clock" is a largely made up concept.

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                                • ininewcrow@lemmy.caI [email protected]

                                  Just find someone with similar dumpster fires, then you'll both burn in the passions of what you love

                                  Also, thanks for mentioning DINK - Double Income No Kids .... never heard of that before and now I learned something new.

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                                  Like yuppies was a play on hippies except it stood for Young Urban Professional

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                                  • C [email protected]

                                    Want higher birthrates? Just convince people that tomorrow will be better than today.

                                    That's how you see a spike in birth rates.

                                    To maintain a steady birthrate, just convince potential parents that the world will not be any worse for their children than it is today.

                                    See, easy.

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                                    They're taking the opposite approach.

                                    In the past families had a bunch of kids because they needed extra laborers to stay afloat, plus childhood mortality rates were so dire they needed spares to cover for the ones who wouldn't make it.

                                    We're already seeing pushes towards removing child labor laws, and RFK Jr is well on his way to ensuring death from easily preventable diseases makes a comeback.

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                                      No you don't understand. We're the most prosperous we've ever been at any point in time. There was literally no other time better than this. Life is wonderful in every way

                                      /s

                                      I'm generally a happy person but I hate people who say this.

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                                      I'm right there with you. They're basically saying "things could be worse, so there's no point in wanting them better." It's a nonsensical thought-terminating cliché.

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                                      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksA [email protected]

                                        I want biological kids, and I'm right about the point in my life where it would make the most sense to have them. But whenever family asks about it, I tell them I'm not raising children in this kind of administration. They try to suggest that it's not that bad and I stand firm that they're not seeing grandbabies until the government stops being so fashy.

                                        Actually, millennials could probably hold our hypothetical babies hostage, see what's more important to them.

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                                        Actually, millennials could probably hold our hypothetical babies hostage

                                        Given how many kids are in some combination of foster systems, detention centers, corrections programs, or concentration camps, maybe millennials need to start finding the actual babies and liberating them.

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                                          In the USA? If yes, the US is a sick country in regard to income distribution, labor laws, healthcare and public services. However, if your friend voted MAGA, zero sympathy and he/she can carry on.

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                                          However, if your friend voted MAGA, zero sympathy

                                          It's so bizarre to see liberal politician after liberal politician promise economic reforms common to the rest of the industrial world, then fail to deliver over and over again.

                                          And then someone sees a ghoul like Hilary Clinton or Joe Biden running at the top of the ticket, or an American Psycho like Newsom or Adams or Cuomo trying to hijack any semblance of progressive politics for their own vainglory. And they say "Nope, not supporting that garbage".

                                          Then everything that comes after is on their heads, somehow.

                                          Not on the heads of the trillionaire plutocrats setting economic policy. Or military leadership goading us into the next war. Or evangelical hucksters selling snake oil to desperate people.

                                          Nope. Always the fault of Joe Dirt when Obama can't win his third term.

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