Not sure if they do it deliberately, but there’s like this sorta expectation to sympathize with parents who despite being poor still have children. Didn’t they make a CHOICE though? Do you think they should be solely responsible for making it?

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    Living wage for a family with one child in the US is 80k yearly. Only 30% of americans make that or more. Only 30%ish of those people have enough savings to last a few months without income.

    By your logic, only like a tenth of americans should have children, which would make society collapse in give or take 30 years.

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      I dunno, not making any assertions about how society will end up as a result of that, Im not a demographist

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        “We should fill the air with noxious smoke” “WTF no that would make it hard to breathe” “idk man I’m not a pulmonologist”