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[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm 33 and me and my so are not having children. Cope you capitalist pigs. I'm living my one life the way I want and you can fk off with your credit cards and apple pies.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Capitalist pigs: "So Roe is gone, next maybe birth control?"

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[–] hurricane@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I am a member of Gen X and I think Millenials are doing the best they can with the shitshow they inherited. Earth needs fewer humans, not more.

[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It's like a bully kicking and beating you blue then complaining you won't just tell the teacher you're fine.

Like no shit. Multiple "once in a generation" recessions, rent pricing people out of places to live, inflation out the ass on basically everything, all the while wages stay stagnant as fuck. That's not even accounting for the absolute climate disaster we're inheriting.

Of course people are both less able to have kids and less inclined to have kids to put through the grinder of life. The very people complaining about this are the ones who helped create and continue on this scenario!

[–] JediDP@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Bwahahaha. There are already a billion people in my country. I don't need to make more.

[–] MrFlamey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I absolutely hate the inter-generational blame game. Probably because I don't even feel like I belong to any generation as I was born right at the end of 1980, so I'd be a young genXer or something. I don't even know how these generations are decided upon, but in particular I'm sick of hearing everything getting blamed on Millennials all the time, since it really feels like it's mostly a bunch of old rich conservatives doing all the moaning, and is largely the same kind of people as those moaning about bicycle lanes and wind turbines.

I just did a quick search to find a random list of 40 things Millennials are frequently blamed for. Some of the things in the list are absolutely stupid as fuck, but I'm sure we've all seen such articles. I guess it's easier to generate clicks with headlines blaming Millennials for the downfall of Western civilisation instead of maybe writing a thoughtful article on why there are fewer people having kids, that perhaps investigates issues the commenter mentions.

[–] HollandJim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not just millennials. I was born 5 years after the end of the Baby Boomers and by the time I was 20 everything was becoming out of reach. Add a energy crisis or two, 40 years of Republican austerity for anyone but themselves, and a few financial crashes We the People ended-up bailing out, and I never got anywhere enough traction to do more than just get by without a mountain of debt. We never outran the entitlement of the Boomer generation.

Good luck Millennials - and I mean it - but the only way out is to get out of the US while you can.

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