• SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
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    Young folks have been priced out of housing & healthcare, you can be fired from your job on a whim, food is astronomically expensive, the political climate is tense, your basic human rights could be rescinded at any time, the future of the planet is being murdered by shitty capitalists with 0 regard for human life…

    I mean, who wouldn’t want to bring a child into this world right now?

    Eat shit.

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      I’m hunting for a new job for the second time in less than a year, and I’m honestly a skilled professional with over 10 years of experience, with a lot of proof that I do great work. The labor market is stupid right now, just down right stupid. Full of executives searching for short term profits rather than anyone wanting to actually run a company well. That’s alone is a huge reason, on top of everything else. I don’t even know if I’ll have stable employment, and that means I don’t know if I’ll have stable health insurance - so genuinely what are any actual incentives to my generation to have kids? Literally are there any beyond just “you have a kid now”

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        It’s shit, right? I’m so sorry. I hope that stability comes to you very soon.

        Reject tradition. You have no obligation to sacrifice your well-being because some old, out-of-touch fuckwads want something life-changing from you. Can’t even afford groceries.

        They can foster a child if they want one around so badly. Or go sit at a park. Or volunteer at the church nursery or something, ffs.

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          bingo. The SO and I have talked about it, and we decided if we regret it a bit later and it’s too late, adoption is always a valid choice. After all, we’re not bringing new life in so we don’t have to feel guilty about that, but instead we would be giving a home to someone else who needs one. However, there are still many, many negatives as to why we don’t want to or simply can’t right now.

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    Once again Gen-X is ignored. It’s Gen-X hitting grandparenting age.

    My two kids probably won’t be parents, and I’m ok with that. I want them to be happy more than I want to enjoy grandkids. Whatever they choose, I’ll be happy with.

    I felt pressure from Boomer parents to have kids, and I didn’t want to do the same to my kids. That’s a hard nope.

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      Seems like old = boomers and young = millennials for journalist and a lot of people

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        People are having kids later in life, and the youngest millennials are only ~29.

        Millennials are predominantly the children of Boomers, so that’s why these two generations are basing singled out.

        Gen-X were called the a Baby Bust generation for a reason; there aren’t enough of them around in order to swap population metrics compared to what came directly before and after.

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      Once again Gen-X is ignored.

      I will maintain, as I always do, that getting lumped in with the wrong group and ignored is the most Gen-X thing going right now.

      With that, I conclude: whatever ::eye roll::.

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      I mean you can still have grandkids. I’ve heard they’re great deep fried with a light cornmeal batter and a creamy dill sauce.

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      maybe if gen x did something we wouldn’t be forgetting about them /s (i kid i kid)

      but seriously, go get into the government or something, you guys are the prime age for entering the government right now.

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      Gen X is normally described as 1965-1980 so 44 to 59 years old.

      Average age of mothers first birth right now is 27. It was around 25 for most of Gen X. So 25 + 27 = 52. Yeah new grandparents are not boomers.

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      I mean, she’s a boomer, if she said she had I still wouldn’t trust her.

      Boomers: “Reality can be anything I want.”

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      she better stop voting for conservatives

      Democrats have won the popular vote in the last seven of eight elections. If everyone struck this deal, I would expect to see significantly more grandkids than we’re getting.

      But also, states like California and New York and Massachusetts are seeing grandkid-gaps bigger than anything you’ll find in Utah or Ohio or South Carolina. If conservatives are causing the problem, you would expect to see more Gen Alphas in the bluer states, wouldn’t you?

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        The poorer families in those states make do better than poorer families in red states, but not enough to support having kids

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      The wealthier Boomers left behind millions of tiny little ladders specifically for their kids to climb.

      The poorer Boomers died before hitting retirement age, or died in debt, or bankrupted themselves paying for end-of-life health care, or got scammed or otherwise denuded of their accumulated wealth.

      Incidentally, its the wealthier Boomers who continue to set national policy from the board rooms and lobbying offices established by their own parents and grandparents. Meanwhile the poorer and more isolated Boomers are left to drown in their own poverty, ineffectually raging at the collapse of neighborhoods and the destitution of their pension funds and the deterioration of their suburban homes, unless their children and grandchildren are able to help them out at the end of their days.

      Folks like to pretend this is one generation pitted against another. But its selection bias. The only members of the Boomer generation you hear from are the ones that came out on top. The rest have been killed in the wars or poisoned by industrial waste and lead pollution or foreclosed into homelessness to die on the streets or confined to digital communities like Facebook where they’re drowned out by waves of misinformation accounts. Legions of dead Boomers never got to decide how the current generations live. They were burned up and thrown out, just like the current generation of bourgeois GenXers and Millennials and Zoomers plan to do with the rest of us.

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    Maybe they shouldn’t horde and partition their wealth from their children and do everything possible to ensure every penny is spent before death.

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      You’re not wrong, but this is more of a class issue than a generational issue, although in this case they certainly intersect. My boomer parents don’t have any money; they got screwed over by the 1% just like the rest of us.

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        Boomers repealed all the laws on those guys in exchange for better returns on the 401ks and home sales.

        They sold humanity to our corporate overlords, they need to be held to account.

        They’re so anti-socialism: Suspend Medicare for 10 years, let the system sort itself out.

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        no it’s the lack of building supply and market liquidity.

        Shit like airbnb is going to have a more influential effect on the market than something like blackrock.

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            how is the market liquidity like in canada? I know the housing market is in a much worse state, but from i understand, it’s the same problem. And if you want to argue for mid density housing, by all means go for it, i’m not against it. But at the end of the day if we built more housing, there would be more liquidity in the market, and people would be buying more houses.

            Generally the market will push towards having some level of unmoved product, so it would make sense that there are unsold houses in a desparate market, people just aren’t willing to pay for it. If it’s too high, nobody buys anything and product simply doesn’t move, which from what i understand is roughly where canada is right now.

            The US has a similar problem, but it’s mostly zoning and NIMBY types out here. Fixing zoning and incentivizing new building would really help.

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    I want the lions share of the profits of our economy! I want to pull the ladder up behind me! Why aren’t these lazy millennials having kids for me!?

    You’re entitled millennials!

    /Vomit

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    Who writes this trash…

    Imagine a society ran for benefit of gereatrics and nepo babies at the expense of young working people

    Now open your eyes 🤡

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    Make the world a place that will be liveable in 100 years and pay people enough to exist:

    A) without children, and B) with children

    and boom, problem solved. Statistically, anyway.

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    Aww. Maybe if they didn’t spend their days treating their kids like their bank accounts and actually voted to help them afford things like housing and health care they’d have grandkids.

    Instead they supported ghouls like trump and clinton instead of the guy who wanted to give everybody health care!