re: Share of young adults, especially women, who are "unlikely" to have kids is surging

Women are too fat to have kids nowadays

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Hobbyism

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No such thing

People claim something they did for 2 hours 3 years ago like hiking is their hobby

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Children have become unaffordable for the masses. If you aren’t on government assistance or making 6 figures,

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I lived in Peru for two years.. I saw some absolute poverty. I'm talking stick huts with dirt floors, cardboard doors, and a single mat that the whole family slept on.

Those families still had several kids and... guess what? The kids were happy. I'm sure things were hard, but the kids would always be running around, laughing, and kicking a ball they made out of paper.

You don't need to put your kids in violin lessons or put them in private school for you to enrich your kids life. Kids just want love/attention from their parents. Kids are resilient they will make due with out electronics or family vacations.

Kids were raised on dirt poor farms all across America for hundreds of years. You can't tell me we aren't more prosperous in general now.

Peoples standard for living has gone up too much.

more kids, more gov money for the dodge chargers, fast food, weed, cigars, super gulps, etc

Yep, ours are little. Big pay raise when they go to kindergarten.

With that said, love the social aspect of daycare. Interacting with way more of the outside world than we could offer with stay at home.

It’s not even close to financially smart now days.

That’s no crazy to realize but the only folks i know that are truly enjoying like in their 30s and 40s are either very wealthy and kill it financially at work or don’t have kids.

Those are the ones going on vacations regularly, have nice stuff, going out to eat regularly, etc.

All the working class middle class folks i know live fairly simple because they can’t afford much extra

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There is a lot of speculation that young children today may be the first generation that could see a dramatic increase in lifespan. I’m not talking about just lengthening time of survival but reversing aging. If they were having kids at a normal rate we may see a serious population problem.

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Go look for Andrew Steele. He address the "over-population" fallacy in conjunction with anti-aging technologies.

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Capitalism is based upon infinite growth.

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Not necessarily. Certainly at the business unit level, there is a push to establish base, and scale up (potentially to infinity), but as an overall system, capitalism can survive/thrive on a stable population base.

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hence the open borders.

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That is a 2-fold solution to problems:

1. For the Chamber of Commerce types, that's modern form of decriminalized slave labor

2. For the left, they view that as a future voter base

It has nothing to do with sustaining "capitalism" - corporatism, maybe. Hell, C, that was the major economic flaw of chattel slavery in the U.S. Slave labor undercut wages of free, but otherwise poor, folks of all colors, North and South. Ignoring the rank inhumanity of the institution, it was anti-capitalist as well.

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Children have become unaffordable for the masses.

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And maybe things improve a few years down the road. If you wait for things to be perfect you will never have kids. That’s true regardless how much money you make.

Most of these women will reach their early 30s and then they’ll start getting the baby fever. Biology is undefeated