• _sideffect@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    No one has any money for rent, food, or living expenses.

    Everyone is overworked.

    We’re paid pennies compared to CEO’s.

    Every single company fucks us by raising prices because they can, and our governments do nothing because they haven’t worked for the people in decades…

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      9 months ago

      While that is all generally true, the status of most people in developed countries today is better than its ever been in history.

      That’s what’s driving fertility down. People who have access to education, medical care, relative comfort and security have fewer children.

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        My wife and I are part of a younger generation whose culture revolves around NOT having children until all those things you mentioned are attained. The stress of even having a kid, let alone multiple, is not something we’re going to address until we hit financial security.

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          9 months ago

          The subtext there is that you feel that financial security is something which is attainable.

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        9 months ago

        Pretty sure throughout history most (if not all) generations have worked to give their kids a better (if not approximately equal) quality of life to their own. That isn’t feasible for many people, and older generations are frustrated that it wasn’t/isn’t feasible for many who are currently young adults. That, along with the ability to control if you have kids, makes the choice for many of us. Why would you choose to have kids if their lives are worse than your own and you don’t enjoy your own?

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      9 months ago

      This is in the good economies too! In most of Africa life is even shittier. I can only imagine. Well, is still mostly better than it’s ever been. History is cruel, and present but at least % of population living decent is much higher globally. Still, USA richest country in the world and we can’t Even get universal healthcare, and instead of aiding homeless domestically, or money for food abroad etc… We give a genocidal maniac hundreds of billions to play with.

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      9 months ago

      And yet you do nothing but complain on the internet.

      If you really had no options you’d be desperate enough to kill your boss or his boss or the CEO.

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        9 months ago

        Ah yes the ol 'you’re not murdering people so none of your problems are valid". I have a cross-stitch of that in the living room

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          9 months ago

          I really like my boss. He is a happy, older, Santa Claus looking dude that buys us a real lunch on the day we have to come in. Always makes sure we have everything we need.

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              I am as well. I didn’t know what to make of him because he didn’t say a lot in the interviews (it was a panel style set up) and was worried he would be a hard ass.

              Nope, nicest boss I ever had. “Just do your work and ask questions before you get behind, and if you get behind say something before it’s bad.”