Homo Homini Lupus Est
Hehe, yeah exactly that. What I observed in the last 40yrs is that the more people earn, the more they spend. Mostly just to show off how not-poor they are to people they don't really care about. Got a raise of 1000,-? And 1005,- were pushed to "life-style". Never really got it. If you have what you need, why more?
If I would raise an empty cup in the streets, people would probably throw cash in it :-)
I mean, enjoy life as much as possible, but you don't need to do that in a poser-car, poser-house or by buying fancy poser-clothes (which still are made with slave-labour). I do spend a lot in my hobbies, i admit that. But I'm not going nuts here and it's my passion...
To be fair, growing up nowadays and drowning in stupid social media that 24/7 tells you how poor you are, no matter how rich you actually are, probably leaves a mark.
Even a "dream job" is just a job that you hate the least. It might even bring some joy here and there, but in the end you're still on a leash. I tried working, never for long. Then I gave up on that and retired. Like 25yrs ago or so.
But what's the problem with exactly this answer to this stupid "what is your dream job?"? It's an honest and good answer. Except maybe in a job-interview 😁
Confirming your bias surely helps. Better than agitating you with stupid facts or disgust you with nasty truths.
Upgraded my homelab with 256GB right before the prices went nuts. Lucky me.
But before I bought the best GPU at the time for absolute peak-price, adamant it would rise further and never going back.
So...universe equalized for me. For now.
God I hate those Bavarian Zipfelklatscher, but this makes me re-evaluate that sentiment. We all should ditch MS, Google, palantir, crapbook, whatabetterapp et al.
I know how the world works, and I get the meme. Nothing has a fixed value, I also know that.
But where here is an argument for having children while being poor, no matter where you are. Also poor is very relative, yes. But depending on where you are, geographcially,, there surely are fixed prices on things you, or especially your hypothetical kid, needs, wants or craves. Period. No amount of poetic well phrased ideology is changing that. Unless a certain percentage of people think exactly alike. And that percentage needs to higher than It will ever even approximate to in both our lifetimes.
And here’s the catch they forgot: you can shrink the fine, but you can’t shrink the damage. The real bill gets kept somewhere their accounting can’t reach, and it always comes due. They look like they’re winning. They’re just early.
HM. Enlighten me, where are the parking-tickets ever coming due for me? I just park a bit more expensive. Also, even if those get to me mentally or karma-wise (if you believe in such nonsense), it would to the poor too. On top of a fine being hurting already.
Besides. Haven't even tried to discuss your meme to begin with (nothing wrong with it, depending if you're pro or contra LLM), just asked why kids are always the excuse/reason for everything. If you were forced into procreation and abortion was not allowed/available/whatever and you're still trying to be your best dad: Kudos to you. Bad parents are legion. Still wouldn't really change my point. I would not want to be in a dilemma where I have to decide working for or with the devil or not feeding my kids. Hence I remain free of such burdens and also keep my freedom to make my own moral and ethical rules and apply to them. Bending those morals because I have a child, puts me into responsibility, not the kids ("who would feed them, if...."). I did that.
Not implying you were a bad person, parent, whatever. No offence meant at all.
reproduction is the necessity of letting a society explore its potential
You made it sound poetic. In theory I'm totally on your side here. But in reality?
What if you live e.g. in the USA, are poor, your kid and you are superhappy, because you don't value monetary things as high, your kid ignores being bullied not to have the latest iphone (or whatever kids demand to own nowadays) and everything is great. Then your kiddo gets really sick and ...well. Debts pile up, you get the cheapest and worst treatment and then it's over. Would you still say "reproduction is the necessity of letting a society explore its potential...and this potential went poof" or "some hope that wants to reserve a place in Pandora’s futures." Or less dramatic, your kid dreams of being
<insert job here>
but you lack the funds to send it to the right university. Or the needed tools, or...or...or...And the US isn't even the worst example of possibilities where one might have been popped in from oblivion into existence. I couldn't look my child in the eyes with dignity when it would be just one of twelve, in the hopes at least 3 survive to care for my ass when i'm old...
Sorry for the RSI.
If you can't grasp my standpoint, then try to tell yours? Reproduction is awesome and everyone should do it? Money isn't an important factor to consider before procreating?
Nonsense! It feels like yesterday, lemme check the facts and teach you.....ah fuck. Now I hate you 😢
You should really try obsessing about something else (or get help). Otherwise you have a nasty future ahead of you, hand-wise.
So still no idea what your point even is. There are some isolated parts of the world with fair-trade and happiness all over where being forced to have a child is great, and being poor doesn't matter at all for procreation. Makes sense.
Trying to parse this because the only assumptions on your part that would make it valid are:
I really have no idea what you are even on about. If you're poor and want to breed happy slaves for your owning class? Sure, go ahead, be as egoistical as you'd like, I couldn't care less. It's not my life.
If you're poor and live the happiest life, be my guest. Money surely isn't everything. Being happy without money maybe beats being rich but unhappy. I'm lucky enough to be neither.
But if you somehow live in a capitalist something, which i have to assume as you use the net and lemmy, you cannot seriously think money isn't the only important factor.
Also it's obviously the most important metric for most things. Wanna be healthy? Wanna eat healthy? Buy a house or two? Want to travel the world? Want a car or two? Want nice clothes that aren't slave-labour-made? Why should procreation be excluded? A child is probably equal to buying a nice lil summer-house, cost-wise.
religion is the set of conventions that form around a common practice or shared belief.
You're free to believe in this simplicity. Surely it's not used as a means to control the sheeple. If only "common practice and shared belief" then there surely needs to be no hierarchy. But again: totally derailing the point here :)
A fish can’t tell water is wet because it’s literally swimming in it.
A lot of words for not saying much. Are you a politician by trade? My point does not change much if procreation is forced. It should not a have been on a an additional layer then.
How does it measure the fitness of a reproduction license for a version of Einstein that developed as a secretly non-binary Aztec priest?
Dude. Are you high? Seriously asking, not judging. What does anything have to do with that? The world sucks for poor people, and they're the ones procreating the most. While they shouldn't. No reason or circumstance makes this point any less valid. Only adds layers to why not.
And why even bring gender in it? Who cares for that? What does procreation have to do with that? If you can't raise a kid properly in this broken capitalist hellhole and only breed slaves for the others, it does not matter what gender you are. Not that it would matter in any other aspect.
Also: belief != religion. I don't care for beliefs. I find them silly and childish but to each his own. Religion is a totally different matter. And also not really adjacent to the point
The trend is having a fourth car, so there's your goal :-)