have you got a gym membership? I do, it doesn’t take up that much time but one can go back to the 50s/60s/70’s and see what were people doing? At 11pm what were you options for entertainment, I remember in the 90’s it was like, read a book, watch TV, or listen to the radio, not exactly thrilling
In comparison now I have an unlimited entertainment vehicle in trolling the fediverse (1.07K Posts/3.04K Comments god damn), I put in ~an hour at the gym every few days, compared to easily hours on the fediverse every week, some nights I put in more time on the fedi than the gym in a month, and that’s JUST the fedi, not even mentioning youtube, telegram, mistral/claude, torrents, movies, music, programming, etcetc
How can we say that gifting someone a dog for christmas that may or may not be mistreated and discarded when the novelty weary of is bad, but kids out of boredom is ok?
I mean I would say it’s largely just life, this comes into the overregulation/helicopter parenting, loads of kids would come home from school then just run off for hours until it was time to come home or just for dinner before running off again, parenting shouldn’t be a full time job, requiring 24x7 supervision and checking at all times
Ironically because of iphone they now sit inside getting fat watching youtube and tiktok
We have simultaneously loaded ourselves up with high standards (both with regards to raising kids and the equipment to provide for them) and easy cheap entertainment/calories
It’s completely understandable why we’re fat and not particularly enthused about raising kids
Man, don’t get too hung up on the last sentence, that is more my personal opinion on how one should approach life, I don’t expect anyone to share it, I haven’t discovered the ultimate truth. Yet. So, my clearly marked personal opinion:
Don’t get me wrong, I hate helicopter parenting as much as anyone. “Back in my days”, we’d fuck off into the woods after school, doing all kinds of bullshit, and as long as we were home at dinner time and didn’t lose any teeth, all was fine. On the other hand, I can’t say that that stopped me from becoming a weirdo. I have seen plenty of people have kids who wanted them and really should not have kids, and I have seen some people go above and beyond for their children, although they were in bad situations, or got them by accident and so on.
If one gets a kid out of boredom, I would argue one is exactly the kind of person who parks their kids on youtube in order to watch their own tiktok slop in peace. Or the kind of person who gets a pet and then neglects it. Only that tying up a kid at the highway truck stop is, much to my surprise, still illegal.
Now, to the facts: the data looks pretty clear to me. Higher standard of living, more education, less kids. I don’t know why this is really seen as such a bad thing, since apparently, not all people have the inherent drive to have kids, and in a more “developed” society, there is no hard push that one has to have children or else. Not pushing people who don’t want to do something is good, in my not very humble opinion.
have you got a gym membership? I do, it doesn’t take up that much time but one can go back to the 50s/60s/70’s and see what were people doing? At 11pm what were you options for entertainment, I remember in the 90’s it was like, read a book, watch TV, or listen to the radio, not exactly thrilling
In comparison now I have an unlimited entertainment vehicle in trolling the fediverse (1.07K Posts/3.04K Comments god damn), I put in ~an hour at the gym every few days, compared to easily hours on the fediverse every week, some nights I put in more time on the fedi than the gym in a month, and that’s JUST the fedi, not even mentioning youtube, telegram, mistral/claude, torrents, movies, music, programming, etcetc
I mean I would say it’s largely just life, this comes into the overregulation/helicopter parenting, loads of kids would come home from school then just run off for hours until it was time to come home or just for dinner before running off again, parenting shouldn’t be a full time job, requiring 24x7 supervision and checking at all times
Ironically because of iphone they now sit inside getting fat watching youtube and tiktok
Like this is the housing we used to live in:
http://romseyaustralia.com/houses.html#7
Now we can’t build a house for under a million
We have simultaneously loaded ourselves up with high standards (both with regards to raising kids and the equipment to provide for them) and easy cheap entertainment/calories
It’s completely understandable why we’re fat and not particularly enthused about raising kids
Man, don’t get too hung up on the last sentence, that is more my personal opinion on how one should approach life, I don’t expect anyone to share it, I haven’t discovered the ultimate truth. Yet. So, my clearly marked personal opinion:
Don’t get me wrong, I hate helicopter parenting as much as anyone. “Back in my days”, we’d fuck off into the woods after school, doing all kinds of bullshit, and as long as we were home at dinner time and didn’t lose any teeth, all was fine. On the other hand, I can’t say that that stopped me from becoming a weirdo. I have seen plenty of people have kids who wanted them and really should not have kids, and I have seen some people go above and beyond for their children, although they were in bad situations, or got them by accident and so on.
If one gets a kid out of boredom, I would argue one is exactly the kind of person who parks their kids on youtube in order to watch their own tiktok slop in peace. Or the kind of person who gets a pet and then neglects it. Only that tying up a kid at the highway truck stop is, much to my surprise, still illegal.
Now, to the facts: the data looks pretty clear to me. Higher standard of living, more education, less kids. I don’t know why this is really seen as such a bad thing, since apparently, not all people have the inherent drive to have kids, and in a more “developed” society, there is no hard push that one has to have children or else. Not pushing people who don’t want to do something is good, in my not very humble opinion.