• bouh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To add onto the capitalist blame: people are conditioned to think in a capitalist way, and raising a child is a definite losing venture, hence people won’t invest in that shit.

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        1 year ago

        Does he not? From a purely selfish financial pov having a kid is a terrible idea.

        Sure, most people don’t explicitly think in those terms, but financial stability absolutely is a factor many people consider before having kids

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      1 year ago

      If you can hardly feed and house yourself … you can’t afford to woo a wife or raise a kid :/ but that won’t stop some people trying to half-ass it I guess

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      1 year ago

      Quite the opposite, capitalists want more human resources, human capital. There’s an entire ideology, at least centuries old, about this. You can most easily read about it as: pronatalism.

      People aren’t conditioned to think in a capitalist way, they’re conditioned to think about their kids future not being worse than their present, since having kids can throw you into poverty.