Regardless, individuals must be empowered to live their best life (if they choose to be childfree) [2] [3] [4] [5], even if it breaks the entrenched system.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population
[2] https://www.axios.com/2024/04/16/young-adult-sterilization-i...
[3] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullartic...
[4] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230208-the-adults-cel...
[5] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/19/growing-s...
The system I'm starting to conceive doesn't seem like a pyramid scheme, but rather something more balanced than what we have now:
1. You contribute into the pension system to support your parents (through a pension), as a societal obligation. After all, they more likely than not supported you when you needed it.
2. You contribute labor to the next generation of society, in the form of children, to make a claim to the society's, labor-dependent, old-age support programs (funded through point 1). Otherwise, you're on your own to support yourself, which would probably consist of working well into what we currently consider the "retirement years," and/or "choosing" euthanasia when that is no longer possible.
> You’re just livestock that didn’t consent to be here.
No one ever consented to "be here," and it would be impossible to do so. That's just a fact of life.
Wow, you misunderstood that pretty badly.
Unless you can make a money-golem, a pile of cash can't take care of you in your old age, labor will. If you haven't had kids, it means you haven't paid into the future labor pool, and it would therefore be unfair for you to withdraw from it once labor becomes too constrained. To do otherwise would be like paying out full pensions to people who never paid a dime into the system.