I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

“Nothing new under the sun” I suppose!

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    Gf and I talk about this a lot. Both want kids but I don’t know how to feel about this world anymore. I come from generational wealth so could just buy the kids houses but I feel like it’s still going to be super shitty overall

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      You really shouldn’t let the state of the world breed you out of the gene pool.

      Also, consider how humans in the past lived. Most of them had way, way worse lives than what the average person experiences today.

      It’s not even close. Take a look at what life was like before we eradicated Smallpox, for example.

      Right now is unironically the safest, most prosperous time in human history to have children.

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      Adopt. There are kids who need good homes and you are in a position to provide one.

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        22 hours ago

        Yeah but I’m kind of a narcissist and I want to see more of myself is the thing lol

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            Yeah i know that, i selfishly want to try to spawn a new guitar hero lol

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        That may be true. But there is a difference between giving away a free home to a random in need vs your own offspring.
        I would without a goubt give away my kidney to my mother or father.
        Not so much for a random if I was given the choice.

        As we don’t know how much ressources OP has, I wouldnt want to jump to conclusions. Maybe they’d have only enough to buy a house/flat for a child, maybe two (which is still much).

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          Yeah I’m not like a multimillionaire. I was thinking more along the lines of two kids I would each buy a 1 bedroom apartment kind of thing

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            In US having a personal residence and being able to buy 2 more will require about million in of itself alone…

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              I’m in canada so about 500k per apartment here on vancouver island

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        I like to think my family has always paid it forward and I would raise my kids to be the same

        That was a really fucked up comment honestly lol

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          It is a zero sum game under the current rules… that commenter is just stating mathematical reality of how the money is distributed within American society.

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          I’m glad to hear that, but that’s not fool-proof. The Kennedy family was raised to offer strong support to their community and nation, but they still spawned RFK, Jr., who is even despised by his own family.

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            Touch grass bro

            Like you are comparing me to a family as powerful as the kennedy family? You are delusional

            I’m not that rich or influential lmao

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                You out the gate accuse us of being bad people knowing nothing. Why?

                I have like 1m cad so like a small percentage of power in this world lmao