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!

  • uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club
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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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      Is this a sunken cost fallacy? We have come so far and paid so much that we should just continue suffering rather than make a better decision?