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I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

"Nothing new under the sun" I suppose!

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[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Housing prices? That's your argument? That's your bleak outlook?

Can't afford a home? That means you're homeless. That's a crime now. To the prison work camp you go, chop chop.

Dude, up until relatively recently you couldn't have a baby without it dying or dying yourself.

Still can't in a lot of places. Not to mention, in America, assuming you both survive you're now $50k in medical debt for the privelege of reproducing.

Common cold? Deceased.

People still die from pneumonia daily.

There are people alive today who are being murdered because their existence maddens someone and your argument is that your housing costs have gone up.

Two problems can exist at once.

Get some perspective. Your life isn't that bad.

My friends and family and coworkers are the ones being threatened with murder because their existence maddens someone. Get some perspective.