re: Is Dating in 2017 & Beyond A Dying Mentality?

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Absolutely correct. I guess the older I get, I realize how powerless I am over other's decisions. I won't necessarily say I'm a hedonist, maybe more of a pragmatist. Maybe I'm a nihilist...I don't really care

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It's kinda hard to live in our modern society and not eventually just say f*&k it and try to stop worrying about how unbelievably f^%ked up it all is. We're rapidly approaching the same problem facing Japan. Their jobs are so demanding and the dating pool so f&%ked up that they've basically stopped even trying...as a society. They're just not having kids any more.

Our middle class is getting squeezed out of the baby-making business by economic interests (the rapidly lengthening amount of time needed to be spend in school to get a decent paying career, the costs of healthcare for families, the costs of private schools, etc) to the point that our responsible people are too responsible to have kids. Once they're too responsible to have kids, they'll eventually just say f&$k it, like the Japanese have done, and slowly stop dating entirely. Let's be honest, the only people breeding above the replacement rate are those who are paid to do so by our government, and those offspring are being raised by sh%tty parents to grow up into sh#ttier adults.