Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by sinsterizme on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @09:53PM (#24415917)

I'm pretty sure that having kids contributes in the _opposite_ direction to the maintainability of our planet and our species as a whole. Why do you think it's a service to humanity when population growth is a growing problem, continuing to get worse, which exacerbates issues like conflict between groups, resource contention and climate issues.

I want to emphasize that a sustainable average number of children per family is not zero [0] but around 1-1.5 for a sustainable population size in 100 years, according to the linked article. So given that you presumably live in a developed country (well educated, and don't need children for labour), and have a human's normal biological urges to reproduce, it's not immoral to produce children, but it's certainly not morally commendable.

[0] https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/yes-overpopulation-problem/

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by jelliclesfarm on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:25PM (#24416692)

I would put it as half a surviving child per person and we can bring numbers down to carrying capacity within 150 years.

I also think we should work towards preserving genetic material so in case of a catastrophe we will still have a diverse human gene pool.

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