Or they’ll blame you for roping them into this exploitative shitshow with a side of climate apocalypse, and they’ll be correct.

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    Oh yeah, the world will be so much better off when only the stupidest people are having kids.

    Although if you take your advice from a meme, I suppose nothing of value would be lost.

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        Sure, but chances are low that uneducated people are going to great lengths to make sure their children are well educated.

        One of the most horrifying things I’ve encountered in my career as a teacher was a father who insisted that his incredibly bright high school senior not accept a college scholarship because, and I quote: “I didn’t go to college, and you’re not better than me.”

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          It’s usually the opposite, as long as the uneducated parent isn’t financially successful. If they are then your anecdote does tend to happen, and is generally a good thing in the US and other despotic hell holes as making money is far more important than education.

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            My non-educated family all insisted that I go to college. As of now, I am the only one of my grandparents’ descendents who has a university degree. And that includes the generation after mine (my cousins’ children).

            My experience as a teacher has given me a glimpse into other people’s lives that shows me how very fortunate I was to have a supportive family.

            You don’t have to believe my anecdotal evidence, but my time working with low-income students has shown me that a surprising number of parents are absolutely dead-set against higher education for their kids. It doesn’t make sense, but a lot of things in the US don’t make sense right now.

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      at least they won’t be mine and I won’t have wasted my life raising them. They can go ahead and ruin it all for themselves.