Me: “wow, I never want to have kids.”

Parents: “WHAT? It’s the lost wonderful experience ever!!!”

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    3 days ago

    I don’t believe in the nuclear family and the sort of sense of patriarchal ownership and belongingness that made it so easy to advertise about at the advent of print media is the same sort of shit that makes all the power concentration of private ownership of the means of production possible. It probably wouldn’t be as cringe if you had a child rearing community with a bunch of enrichment, education, and food around that kids had access to (or whatever kids need).

    I don’t know what it would take, but collectively you’d have to get over the dollar as the communication of worthiness of survival, you’d have to have industry that was more than an instrument of getting the means of survival (like a worthwhile state project), and you’d really have to have a community that gave a shit about being more than just me and my little temporarily embarrassed empire