Yes, money is a factor, but it’s not the only factor and it’s not necessarily the largest factor
People want to be younger longer. Graduate, go to college, drink, party, sleep around, get a job, focus on their career, go to concerts, hang out a breweries, travel, etc…
Tying yourself down with kids by the age of 20 or 23 is no longer a common dream. So the same amount of people have kids in life, they just star having kids later and end up with less of them.
There are less accidental pregnancies thanks to better sex education and access to contraceptives and when it comes to doomer-ism, young people are worried about climate change, over population, and like you saw from an earlier response, stupid cry-baby shit like, “I don’t want to make another wage slave”
I keep thinking about the beginning to the movie Idiocracy. Yes, it’s just a movie but the picture it paints remains somewhat valid. While money was an issue to the middle class family, the trashy poor family in the trailer park ended up with six kids.
So yeah, maybe money is an issue to you but it’s not to everyone.
And don’t get it twisted. Being poor and having kids doesn’t make you a bad person. Lots of people grow up poor to hard working, intelligent, loving parents who give them a pretty good life overall. PS5s and new cars don’t make you a good parent. A soccer ball and a tent can do wonders
Do people want to stay young longer or is it that people used to be able to afford to save for a house on an entry level wage. Now, until you’re on a decent wage it’s going to take 10 to 15 years of hard saving to get a house deposit. Faced with that unsurmountable task people say fuck it and just spend for now.
The dream is to be young and rich so you can travel and go to nightclubs and shit… not be young, rich, and a mother of 6 children
Eventually you get tired of the nightclubs and that’s when you want kids… but influencers like MrBeast, IShowSpeed, even the Kardashians didn’t rush out with their money and have kids
Of course it’s money related? I would love to have another child but can’t afford to. Anecdotal yes, but it’s the similar situation for others.
Yes, money is a factor, but it’s not the only factor and it’s not necessarily the largest factor
People want to be younger longer. Graduate, go to college, drink, party, sleep around, get a job, focus on their career, go to concerts, hang out a breweries, travel, etc…
Tying yourself down with kids by the age of 20 or 23 is no longer a common dream. So the same amount of people have kids in life, they just star having kids later and end up with less of them.
There are less accidental pregnancies thanks to better sex education and access to contraceptives and when it comes to doomer-ism, young people are worried about climate change, over population, and like you saw from an earlier response, stupid cry-baby shit like, “I don’t want to make another wage slave”
I keep thinking about the beginning to the movie Idiocracy. Yes, it’s just a movie but the picture it paints remains somewhat valid. While money was an issue to the middle class family, the trashy poor family in the trailer park ended up with six kids.
So yeah, maybe money is an issue to you but it’s not to everyone.
And don’t get it twisted. Being poor and having kids doesn’t make you a bad person. Lots of people grow up poor to hard working, intelligent, loving parents who give them a pretty good life overall. PS5s and new cars don’t make you a good parent. A soccer ball and a tent can do wonders
Do people want to stay young longer or is it that people used to be able to afford to save for a house on an entry level wage. Now, until you’re on a decent wage it’s going to take 10 to 15 years of hard saving to get a house deposit. Faced with that unsurmountable task people say fuck it and just spend for now.
They want to stay younger longer
The dream is to be young and rich so you can travel and go to nightclubs and shit… not be young, rich, and a mother of 6 children
Eventually you get tired of the nightclubs and that’s when you want kids… but influencers like MrBeast, IShowSpeed, even the Kardashians didn’t rush out with their money and have kids
Money is big, but no amount of money will convince me to make a kid whose future is either wage slave or wage slave master.