I want to have kids in the future and have confidence that my partner and I will be able to figure it out and that the joy of having children will outweigh whatever hardships it may put upon us.

I respect that others may not want the same for themselves, but I don't buy this anti-natalist doom and gloom shit at all. People in dire economic and environmental conditions have been having children for all of human history.

If my kids really don't want to live through what's to come, they can kill themselves, just like I can and don't even though things are only looking to be shittier in my future. But I'm not going to make that decision for them.

Really they are talking about imperial core labor. The fact us that capital doesn't want to pay for expanded imperial core labor, and really hasn't since the 80's. On top of this the cost of social reproduction in the imperial core gas gone up. Meanwhile birth rates in third world countries are doing fine, isnt Nigeria still at like 4.5 kids per woman or something.

The time frame isn't a coincidence either, the 80's is when all the new tech developments really started to come online which allowed for comprehensive outsourcing. Basically capital has downgeared. Thet are using less productive and profitable production methods, but because labor costs are so much lower they still make super profits while being able out get around imperial core labor laws and taxes.

This is why you have them using like 20 Indian guys making commodities with 40 year old equipment instead of 1 or two imperial core guys using cutting edge equipment.

Dear boomers,

what part of "I'm poor" don't you understand? Also, why do you guys keep trying to speak for us on our behalf rather than directly ask millennials?

Sincerely,

someone who's gen Z.

i want to have kids, but so far i haven't been able to hold together the right combination of people and economic stability for it to play out. at 32, i'm starting to get there. now i just need to find a couple more partners and we'll be good to go. i understand why people might not want to "doom their child" to an uncertain future, but it seems like the right thing for me to do.

I just kind of haven't met anyone I actually like like that. Also greater obligations preventing me from directing my attention where I please when I please is not a prospect I relish considering how little control I have over my life as-is (and the anguish that lack of control causes me)