Parental stress is a significant public health issue, US surgeon general says in new advisory : aboringdystopia

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I love every thread like this where these knights come in all "well that is why you don't have kids!" The real boring dystopia will be when all these people are old and in medical need and have no young trained people to wipe their asses 🤣

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Imagine telling your kid:

You'll wipe my ass one day. This is your purpose in life.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

So your solution is to just let humanity die out? If nobody procreates that is the result.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes. We've had our chance. We sucked the entire time.

150,000+ years of suck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Grim. I refuse to just lay down and die. I'm sure the day will come soon when we have a sharp decrease in global population and it will be thousands of years before things get good again. But what's the point in giving up?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For me personally it's because looking at human history we haven't really changed when it comes to humanity itself. All we've done is increase our ability to procreate and harvest resources.

We're still the same selfish violent monkeys we were 150,000+ years ago. Now we just have shiny toys to kill things with instead of rocks.

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

There are those that desire change though. We can't succumb to a letting a few bad apples spoiling the batch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's more than a few is the problem. In fact it's heavily skewed in the favor of bad apples. There are more half rotted apples than there are pure clean apples.

It's in our instincts to be selfish outside of small populations.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's what the robots will do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Who will fix the robots?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Butt wAIpes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I'd love to say I solved that for myself by not having kids, but I just found other sources of stress.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago

Modern society isn't compatible with humanness.

Every corpo is out to get more money, time and data out of you, so that they can have more power, while our quality of life is exponentially getting eroded, and the planet is burning.

Add kids to the mix, and you run on fumes 24/7.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know nothing will be done but it's at least nice to hear someone official say it

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's how it always goes...

"Hey, this is officially an issue." .. "Ok, now what?" .. "That's all. It's just an issue."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Add it to the list.

A Boring Dystopia