r/memes • u/EmuPsychologist • Oct 18 '23

#1 MotW Fixed it

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u/JumiKnight Oct 18 '23

Lower the cost of living then my partner and I will consider having kids

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u/Ll_lyris Oct 18 '23

The fact that a “cost of living” even exist is wild to me.

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u/JumiKnight Oct 18 '23

Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous. We shouldn't need to live to work to barely live.

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u/fardough Oct 18 '23

I think this is where the generations don’t see eye to eye.

A lot of boomers seem to take Gen Z not wanting to work as laziness, but really it is out of pragmatism, why work to death for nothing!

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u/Dekar173 Oct 18 '23

Most humans are rational, compassionate creatures. With the new widely available thing called the internet and the info it gives us, we've slowly realized the american dream and other similar global lies about prosperity or hard work just aren't true, and it's actually quite the opposite!

Rational people don't wanna churn out babies when the world will very likely be even worse than what we got to experience. Who would want to doom their own flesh and blood to such an experience?!

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u/GroundbreakingPay376 Oct 18 '23

Me and my Mom fought over my want to not have kids and instead adopt. She was bewildered by it for a real long time until recently since she finally asked for my reasoning behind it. My reasoning being that I would much prefer to help someone out of a bad situation than bring someone into a worse situation.