1 in 5 adults don’t want children –– and they don’t regret it later

Re:1 in 5 adults don’t want children –– and they don’t regre... by robotshmobot on Saturday May 06, 2023 @09:21AM (#35841123)

> If no one did it, the whole would die. Skipping that work voluntarily is a kind of freeloading (and also would typically involves redirecting the personal resources that would have gone to it towards increasing selfish consumption).

There is no amount of consumption a child free middle class person could do in their lifetime that equals that of introducing a whole other person. That’s ridiculous.

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Re:1 in 5 adults don’t want children –– and they don’t regre... by tivert on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:18AM (#35886929)

> There is no amount of consumption a child free middle class person could do in their lifetime that equals that of introducing a whole other person. That’s ridiculous.

What's ridiculous is how much you completely misunderstood my comment. Personal "consumption" has nothing to do with the core idea I was talking about. The only way it factors in at all is like the "insult" in "add insult to injury" (i.e. an ancillary thing that just makes perception of an underlying issue worse).

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