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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by ngngngng on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:31PM (#24412954)
Yep. If you want to see something scary, go browse reddit.com/r/childfree

It's an entire community of people that feel like heroes for not having children, and despise the thought of even having to come into contact with a child. It carries a similar religious fervor to veganism but it doesn't actually help anyone or anything.

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by asciident on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:39AM (#24417189)
I'm not advocating for the mindset there, but can't you see a justification of why that might be? I think reasonable people can debate whether or not overpopulation is the main contributor to the environmental disaster upon us that is an existential crises for humans on this planet. Under that perspective, wouldn't those who chose not to have children, while it was an unpopular option, be the heroes?
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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by rimliu on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:04AM (#24418556)
It is underpopulation, not overpopulation that will be a problem soon (and already is in some parts of the world).
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