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Do you feel sad for people born today?

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    You are born in the very very very best stretch the human race has ever known.

    We have solutions for almost every problem which exists today.

    Wars are at an historical low point.

    Chances are good you've never been even experienced war first hand.

    Housing is expensive, yes. But chances are you're reading this on a couch or bed in a home, heated (or cooled), with a working stove, light at night and a fridge with edibles in it. And lets not talk about your immediate almost unrestricted access to all of human knowledge.

    That would be unbelievable, impossible even during 99.9% of human history. (Or somewhere near this figure)

    You should stop doomscrolling and start reading the real human history.

    All of human knowledge at your fingertips. And this is what you chose to distill from it.

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    #138

    I get what you are saying but everyone is ignoring the human condition. We feel things based on how they are around us in a relative sense.

    It doesn't matter if it is statistically better. Modern times are getting worse for people. Health, privacy, freedom are all declining in America. That is what people see and feel. I'm tired of people acting like we have life horizons that can see centuries.

    Chronic health is a real current issue and it absolutely destroys quality of life too.

    So yeah, great, best time to be alive. But since I was a kid many things have gotten worse. From health (cost, accessibility) and education to privacy. Maybe we will be much farther ahead in 20 years, but the next 10 are looking grim.

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      I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

      "Nothing new under the sun" I suppose!

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      Nah fuck them kids

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        This is such an odd conversation. I provided many charts, many numbers to look at, and you're still arguing, what exactly?

        BTW, Boomers were my parents, and I still have no idea what propaganda you're referring to. If anything, American propaganda has always been about how violent the world is and how we need more defense spending.

        Can you name any propaganda where the government has espoused how peaceful the world is?!

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          Nah fuck them kids

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          Ok, Drumpf

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            I dont care what people do. But they should put a little more thought into it other than "I human. Must make babby". I can guarantee you a very large amount of the population thinks this way.

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            the fertility numbers no longer support this racist/classist trope. I am sure you got some anecdotes tho...

            you are about 10 years late to this shill OP.

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              I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

              "Nothing new under the sun" I suppose!

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              Unclear. Maybe things are going to get better; it's happened before right?

              It hasn't been all bad news lately, too. If you're not straight, cis, or from the the West, being a boomer wasn't such a great deal.

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              • R [email protected]

                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

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                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.

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                • R [email protected]

                  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

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                  In US having a personal residence and being able to buy 2 more will require about million in of itself alone...

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                  • R [email protected]

                    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

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                    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.

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                      Climate change is the number one thing. The past had fascism, tools, slavery - but it didn't have an Extinction level event looming just cresting over the horizon. I'm not having any kids until there is actual meaningful progress towards fixing that... So it looks like I'm not having kids.

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                      Not to mention that one of the easiest ways to combat climate change is to simply not bring more humans into the world.

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                        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.

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                        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

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                          I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

                          "Nothing new under the sun" I suppose!

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                          Politics, economics and war are all hard to predict for long term, but just on the count of climate change kids born today are screwed.

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                            I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

                            "Nothing new under the sun" I suppose!

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                            Fuck parents.

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                            • jerkface@lemmy.caJ [email protected]

                              Fuck parents.

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                              Specifically, MILFs

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                                Maybe their children. I dont think its quite that bad yet.

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                                https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09047-2

                                by developing an ensemble of high-resolution global drought datasets for 1901–2022, we find an increasing trend in drought severity worldwide. Our findings suggest that AED has increased drought severity by an average of 40% globally. Not only are typically dry regions becoming drier but also wet areas are experiencing drying trends. During the past 5 years (2018–2022), the areas in drought have expanded by 74% on average compared with 1981–2017, with AED contributing to 58% of this increase. The year 2022 was record-breaking, with 30% of the global land area affected by moderate and extreme droughts, 42% of which was attributed to increased AED.

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                                  I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

                                  "Nothing new under the sun" I suppose!

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                                  Abortions should be legal at any term

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                                    But you just gave the same reasons people have been giving forever. That's not very nuanced. Things are measurably different now
                                    If you're using the same perspective thinking about this that our parents did, then we're truly getting nowhere

                                    Edit: Or maybe what you're saying is we need to have kids so they can be raised to be some kind of revolutionary super soldiers?

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                                    All I'm saying is the fight is coming whether you want it or not. Its at the point where this affects all living things, and the perpetrators don't care and won't stop. Whether you have kids or not, there will still be children. Therefore, you still have a choice to inspire hope in them or not even if you can't understand why people would have children in this time.

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                                      Unclear. Maybe things are going to get better; it's happened before right?

                                      It hasn't been all bad news lately, too. If you're not straight, cis, or from the the West, being a boomer wasn't such a great deal.

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                                      it’s happened before right?

                                      not what we've done to the ecosystem. we're in entirely uncharted territory.

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                                      • R [email protected]

                                        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

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                                        not like it matters. it can still apply on a smaller scale

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                                        • sanctus@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                                          All I'm saying is the fight is coming whether you want it or not. Its at the point where this affects all living things, and the perpetrators don't care and won't stop. Whether you have kids or not, there will still be children. Therefore, you still have a choice to inspire hope in them or not even if you can't understand why people would have children in this time.

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                                          Yeah, I know. I think it's asinine that people are out here having kids, pretending that the future is going to be status quo. That's kind of my whole point. I'm not, like, anti-humanity. I have nieces and nephews and I try to inspire them every single day. But I'm also real with them. I let them know that the future is fucked, that many things are past the point of no return, and that we should all be practicing resilience. Humanity will live on, and life will go on, but not the way that it is now. And saying any different is either lying to them or ourselves. That's not hope, that's delusion.

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