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Why it is important not to have children (2012)

11 points| likeabatterycar | 1 year ago |stallman.org

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silexia|1 year ago

The elites want you dead and your children dead. Do not listen to this madness.

sympil|1 year ago

Richard Stallman is not one of the elites or a mouthpiece for them. He doesnt want your kids dead. He thinks its best for the planet to not have kids (in gemeral).

WarOnPrivacy|1 year ago

> Do not listen to this madness.

Stallman makes his argument from a position that parenthood is a reasonable choice for most of us. That is no longer the case. For most of us, parenthood is out of reach.

We are living in a 4 (typical) income economy. My adult children have no likely path to support themselves, nevertheless to be part of a self-sustaining, married couple.

It's also because parenting time rose 20-fold between my childhood and my kids'. My mom parented some hours a week. During my grade-school years, I could roam miles in every direction.

I had to supply a 24/7 adult presence to my kids. My kids had ~nowhere to go.

Compared to most of human history, modern parenting/childhood is a treadmill of restrictions, overload and unaffordability. At the end of it we grow emotionally harmed adults and then blame social media for the results.