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I am curious if the majority of leftist people don't actually want children haha. There doesn't seem to be any studies about it, but my convos with leftists is that most don't seem to want to have children either for the uncertainty of the future or because they are too expensive or because it wouldn't give them too much time to organize or whatever other reason that I forgot about.

I personally lean on not having children because I have been laid off of several jobs and having someone financially dependent to me scares the shit out of me and would put my stress levels through the roof.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (35 children)

You aren’t a leftist if you are an anti-natalist. Anti-natalism is based on the assumption that life is more bad than good which is based on subjective views of the world (and has no basis in actual science). It’s not materialist. Secondly, anti-natalism is anti-human and therefore anti-worker. You cannot be a leftist anti-natalist much as you can’t be a leftist racist. Anti-natalism is extremely reactionary.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Anti-natalism isn't inherently anti-human or anti-worker, that is laughable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Yes, it is. Anti-natalism posits that people shouldn’t be born. That means they do not want people to be workers in the future, making it a reactionary anti-worker position to take.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty fucked up to reduce all people to simply just "worker"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I have no clue what you mean

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