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My parents asked when I planned on having kids, and I answered something along the lines of "I love my unborn children FAR too much to consider bringing them into this hell-hole."
...that was maybe 5 years ago? They haven't TOUCHED that topic since, lol.
That's weird because the world is in better shape than it was when I grew up. You have drills for what to do in active shooter situations. I had drills for what to do in case of a nuclear war. I don't think it's as much to do with how bad the world is vs how bad the economy is for young people... and I"m not even sure if it's statistically worse. Certainly housing is worse. Are there any other metrics that are really worse? (This is an honest question, I"m not looking for a generational fight. None of us have any control over when we were born.) Wealth inequality has gotten worse, but it was pretty bad before too.
I guess what I"m really arguing is that I think there is too much negativity and pessimism in our society especially amongst the young. Some things do suck. But finding someone who you love and then deciding to start a family with them and creating a small pocket of a better world seems 100% worth it to me.
Economy is a huge one. If minimum wage kept pace with cost of living, it'd be something like $30 per hour today. That's one of the hardest points to drive to older folks, cuz they see shit like pushes for $15 and think it's ridiculous cuz theirs was only $5 and think we're asking for three times more than what they earned; and simultaneously that the difference is only a factor of three. The cost of everything has left our earning potential in the dust, so we're having to cut things like health insurance just to keep a roof over our head. Boomers had it WAY easy financially, but so many of them feel like they have a super human work ethic cuz they paid for college by working a summer... that shit doesn't work anymore.
Climate is another hard hitter. We're actively watching a mass extinction event kick off, and we know what needs to happen to fix it, but the people with the power to do anything about it don't give a fuck, so the rest of us get to just watch helplessly as our planet dies. This situation is going to be worse and worse for every incoming generation, so shouldering our potential kids with that burden would be one of the cruelest things we're capable of.
Then there's culture. You'd think we'd have at least made some progress here, but no. The Nazis are back, white supremacism is rampant, and christofascism is a rapidly growing cancer that our political and justice systems don't seem able or willing to address. All it takes is a meme on Facebook for WAY too many parents to abandon their children's safety by denying them vaccines. Women are being denied healthcare and imprisoned for things like a miscarriage.
...and that's today. Everything I mentioned is in a nose dive, so how much worse is it going to be in 5? 10? 50 years?
Who in their right mind would look at the dumpster fire we live in and think "Yup! This is a suitable environment to raise a kid!"? I know a lot of people just want their 'bundle of joy' but that's completely ignoring the kid's perspective - damning them to all ^that is selfish to a borderline evil extent.
We're fucked, but our kids are WAY more fucked.
Past generations wondered "Wow, I wonder what the future will look like?", but nowadays we only think "The world is fucked and it's only getting worse."
I know doom thinking is bad and all that, but there is just so little reason to become excited about what's to come
Let me suggest you find different corners of the internet to lurk in. I can’t imagine going back to a time before the internet, but one of the things it’s very good at is spreading outrage, bad news, problem after problem. If it’s getting overwhelming, maybe it would help to change your view. I’m not trying to sell you a picture of everything being perfect, just that there have always been big problems and the difference today is hearing them non-stop. Make it stop. Get a more balanced life picture.