if it was feasible during the Black Death it’s feasible now. you just have to adjust your expectations of your child’s material conditions from infancy through adulthood. If you go through with it you should also accept the likelihood that their life will be short and bad.
Not exactly. My parents were both born in the 60s and lived in an entirely different world when they had me
I’m personally probably never going to have kids because 1) I haven’t had a partner in awhile and 2) I don’t like the argument that “things were bad in the past and people still had kids” because you’re really just rolling the dice at that point. I also don’t buy the alpha bro argument that humans are meant to reproduce as if humans aren’t creatures with the capacity to make decisions about what is best. Plus, kids are becoming a luxury with the way everything continues to get more expensive with no signs of the bourgeois being kept in check. So naturally, things will only continue to get worse.
I don’t understand why people are obsessed with their genes and can’t at least consider adopting but I also realize capitalism has fucked that alternative too.
I wouldn’t call the Black Death feasible, but more “miserable” and 2/3 of crackerland died, so many people with kids end up with no kids, and many kids ended up raising themselves. So comparing crackerland’s Black Plague to modern conditions is like comparing apples and oranges.
if it was feasible during the Black Death it’s feasible now. you just have to adjust your expectations of your child’s material conditions from infancy through adulthood. If you go through with it you should also accept the likelihood that their life will be short and bad.
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your parents did
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oof. okay yea good point.
Not exactly. My parents were both born in the 60s and lived in an entirely different world when they had me
I’m personally probably never going to have kids because 1) I haven’t had a partner in awhile and 2) I don’t like the argument that “things were bad in the past and people still had kids” because you’re really just rolling the dice at that point. I also don’t buy the alpha bro argument that humans are meant to reproduce as if humans aren’t creatures with the capacity to make decisions about what is best. Plus, kids are becoming a luxury with the way everything continues to get more expensive with no signs of the bourgeois being kept in check. So naturally, things will only continue to get worse.
I don’t understand why people are obsessed with their genes and can’t at least consider adopting but I also realize capitalism has fucked that alternative too.
owls just need to adapt to eating human carcasses and they’ll do fine
Idk, our carcasses are probably full of micro plastics.
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I wouldn’t call the Black Death feasible, but more “miserable” and 2/3 of crackerland died, so many people with kids end up with no kids, and many kids ended up raising themselves. So comparing crackerland’s Black Plague to modern conditions is like comparing apples and oranges.
covid was just Diet Black Death