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this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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Jesus Christ you're deluded. You're doubling down in every way possible to justify the fact that when you get old you're fucked. I can't help that and whatever you need to do to rationalize that it's on you.
This is not just you. Every single one of you childfree people have a reckoning unless you can get society to double down on communal care which is currently not the norm.
Were you even an adult during COVID? Did you see it decimate old people in retirement homes like a cattle farm? The safest elderly were the ones in the care of their loved ones outside of being dumped in a long term care facility.
Best of luck.
Every accusation my friend :)
You believe that when people get old they are fucked. And you just assume I don't have kids because I pointed out there's more support than just the state and immediate family. Hell, if you're part of a church that's another level of support.
Family, friends, church, neighbors, immediate family, extended family... these are all layers of support. Somehow you think I'm trying to say that means they will 100% always be available for my use (sounds like your narcissistic protection here). When in reality each layer is meant to help insulate, but not completely eliminate, the need to go it alone. Yes, at the end of the day we are alone and only have ourselves to rely on, but that doesn't have to be the only way you live, contrary to what you seem to think.
Just because you have no support system doesn't mean everyone in the world is the same. Maybe you're angry that other people have robust support networks while you don't. Idk.
I think I see it now. You have a parent who has no support system other than you and your sibling(s). Which then forces you to bend over backwards catering to them cuz you love them, they're your parent. But you get resentful you have to do all this work for them though. You think "they wouldn't be able to survive without me". Which then gets extrapolated to "anybody without kids won't be able to survive on their own". And you can't vent this frustration to the person you're caring for so it comes out online.
It's your parent that has basically no support system, not you. But even people with kids can have no support system, having a kid doesn't automatically mean they will care for you in old age.