Re:Why the demographic transition is speeding up
by cbshsjsh on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:18AM
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> I don't want the world to be populated by people who think like me.
I didn’t want kids for the same reasons, and because I am highly anxious and the world seems pretty grim place.
Ended up marrying a girl who wanted kids, so now we have kids. I am happy to be parent but now that I am hanging out with other parents, there are no longer intellectual discussions. Everyone seems more focused on the money. And honestly it seems there is a relationship between number of kids and intelligence. These people are happier though.
Now I sort of hope my kids don’t think like me. Even if it means overpopulation.
I don't want the world to be populated by people who think like me. I just appreciate it for what it is.
It's a big old interesting world, and I'll only ever get to see bits of it.
There are so many people in the world, all of them different, each of them thinking different things and trying to get to different places. That's what I like about the world. It's an interesting, surprising place, full of variety, unexpected schema, and ways to do things that have never occurred to me.
What parents want for their kids is just the starting point for kids anyway. Where they end up and why, who knows?