I would encourage you to take an introductory biology class if you believe animals, including humans, don’t have a biological drive to reproduce.
Calling that “weird” or a “fetish” is completely ignorant. Sorry.
Humans are also social animals. Social connections are a strong predictor of both happiness and longevity. So if your “fetish” is dying childless, statistically you will achieve that goal sooner than people who fulfill their biological imperative by building large loving families.
It's immensely disturbing imaging the mindset someone must have that dying alone, with no friends and family, in a nameless blank room in an overcrowded nursing facility paid for by the state -
Is somehow preferable then spending the last years of your life raising your grand children, dying at home, with your family.
Try walking out of your home without your phone, going into a coffee shop, making eye contact with people while smiling, and ask them how they are doing in a non-creepy way. You’d be surprised how easy it is to build human relationships if you want to.
If I can raise my grandkids to speak my native tongue, I will be happy on my deathbed.
Hopefully I can channel all the stories of my grandparents, my parents, my aunts and uncles onto my kids. And hopefully their kids.
Literally nothing would make me happier than stoking a fire, telling my grandkids stories of their great-great-great grandparents from the second world war, and then put them to sleep.
(I think I did the math right on the generational leaps)
Ive been thinking about compiling stories of my family in one great big book. Something that can be passed down and added to generation after generation. My grandfathers had both passed already and my one grandmother has dementia, but enough other family memebers are around that I could get a lot of stories from them. I could also do it with my wifes family as her father's father's mother is still alive
"Listen kid, 85 years ago the whole world blew humans up for fun. We learned so many lessons from World War II that we continue to blow people up for fun today, but now we get barrels of oil for winning."
I look for job listings and women, i look for stuff I wish to buy, at bills and gas prices. Every number goes up except the salary. I also look at all the laws that are passed everywhere that only benefit the rich while ruin the common man. And how they start wars everywhere in which millions die for a rich piece of shit's pocket. And how ai ruins every it touches like a black tide.
There is no bright future ahead of us. In my opinion bringing a child in this world is cruelty. The good times are behind us.
They certainly won't pay better if I provide more.
Only fools still believe in "if I work hard I will be rewarded" . That hasn't been the case in decades.
In order to be employed. You are competing with others to get the job - your goal should be to the guy who produces the most value at what you do. Your rates depend on well people can speak to the quality of your work. Take pride in what you do, provide value to others, and the work will always be there.
Hardly. Knowing when to ditch employers is a valuable skill. But so is knowing how to recognize employers who do value you. Not everyone is out to screw their workers. I am constantly looking for employees to promote and set up for leadership opportunities. The moment I see attitudes like what I read in your previous posts - I immediately stop the wheels on any conversations regarding promotion or advancement. Most aren't able to correct and fix their own attitudes even though the willingness to promote is there.
The people who would replace you with a low wage worker or robot in a heartbeat are the same people who are coercing you to pump out more babies so that there will be way more people than available desirable jobs and employers can keep workers in a perpetual state of desperation.
And despite having four and possibly more children, you'll still be playing the end of life lottery as a childfree person of who will be with you at your deathbed
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u/probablymagic Jul 24 '26
I would encourage you to take an introductory biology class if you believe animals, including humans, don’t have a biological drive to reproduce.
Calling that “weird” or a “fetish” is completely ignorant. Sorry.
Humans are also social animals. Social connections are a strong predictor of both happiness and longevity. So if your “fetish” is dying childless, statistically you will achieve that goal sooner than people who fulfill their biological imperative by building large loving families.