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A sad data point, proximate to anonym29's comment: 2 decades ago, the apartment complex I currently live in did not allow any dogs, and was swarming with small (and often noisy) children. Now, the dogs greatly outnumber the children. And the monthly rent (with no real physical improvements) is nearly 3x higher. (Location - south-east Michigan, USA.)
Earth is overpopulated, Thanos was correct.
A sad data point, proximate to anonym29's comment: 2 decades ago, the apartment complex I currently live in did not allow any dogs, and was swarming with small (and often noisy) children. Now, the dogs greatly outnumber the children. And the monthly rent (with no real physical improvements) is nearly 3x higher. (Location - south-east Michigan, USA.)
Dogs have a much lower carbon footprint than children, nothing about that news is sad.
Modest idea: Moderately tax no-kids zones. Spend the money to subsidize services which are ~essential to those with young children (such as day care) and ~useless to those without.
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Sad if you enjoy kids, great if you’re child free. There are enough options for everyone to maximize their happiness potential on this topic. (And that rent, woof)
Anyone who is child free still has a vested interest in the future generation.
Another opinion is that children are a luxury good, not a necessity.
The real issue is the shunning, misery, suffering, starvation, and suicides of the elderly.
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Why? Kids probably cause more property damage than pets do. Seems reasonable IMO.
Too bad, when you live in a society, you have to deal with other people living in the society including those under the age of 18.
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Black people aren't children.
Both concepts (white only and childfree) are the same (Exclusion of the others), and come from the same place (My right to have what I want is more important than everybody else's)
Same as it was considered bad taste to have blacks lingering around, now it is bad taste to have children running around.
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Why? Kids probably cause more property damage than pets do. Seems reasonable IMO.
And the people arguing for white-only spaces said whites caused less property damage than certain other races.
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Anyone who is child free still has a vested interest in the future generation.
An opinion, to be sure, but not the only one. If child free, you’re only vested in whatever it takes to get you to the grave comfortably, demographically speaking (and there are already 8 billion people on the planet, headed to 10 billion). Another opinion is that children are a luxury good, not a necessity.