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Entrapment seems about right (thelemmy.club)
submitted 17 hours ago by [M] to c/childfree@lemmy.world
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[–] 70 points 12 hours ago (10 children)

True, but it's not a having kids problem. It's a capitalism problem, as usual.

The same case could be made for hobbies. You need money for hobbies, so they trap you in the system.

Destroy capitalism and suddenly having kids is great (relatively speaking, subject to personal preferences).

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Destroy capitalism and suddenly having kids is great

    Depends on the system. The reason why capitalism has proliferated is it allows selfishness, which is part of human nature. Honestly, is there a better economic system, which also rewards selfishness like capitalism?

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  • [–] 16 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    I think OOP is referring specifically to the cultural pressures everywhere telling you that you need to have kids. The people pushing that the most are conservatives who are straight up puppets for billionaires

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  • [–] 12 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    They need more labor and consumers. Every American is more profit for the corporations that rule us.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago

    Also more soldiers to send off on needless wars like the Vietnam War, Korean War, Iran War , Afghan War, etc...

    All the wars Injust mentioned didnt substantially change any of the lives of the peoples of the countries that participated in them.

    Vietnam is still a somewhat socialistic state, North Korea and South Korea still exist till today, Iran is still ruled miliarily by the IRGC and parliamentarily by the Iranian clerical elites, and the Afghanis still dont care at all about nato and are rulled by the Taliban....

    Just more soldiers into thhe needless meat grinders, and more slaves and consumers to do the bidding of the richest people in society.

    There will be more and more needless wars with dozens of innocent , impressionable adults thrown into the different meat grinders. There will be mroe and more people turned into personal toys for the rich or into their slaves and consumers ...

    It is not until the average person gets fed up and knowledgable about how this circular and awful system fucks them , their loved ones, their communities and the kids of their communities over and says "No More! " will we see a substantial change to be subsubstantiated.

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  • [–] 12 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

    You need money for hobbies

    some hobbies. Other hobbies can even make you money.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    I've completed sailing course recently, and I'm still in awe that one of activities that the instructors do in their spare time is handling the private yachts between ports, like bringing one from Greece to Spain. Seems like an awesome side gig.

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