On the Importance of Supporting Other People's Children.

The thing is, a lot of parents today have convinced themselves that the future world cannot run if we don't support their children.  Except... it doesn't always pay off.  What if... your child never gets a job of their own and becomes a tax-paying contributor to society?  What if... your government-supported child does not want to work in healthcare or at a nursing home?  What if... we taxpayers invest in your family for years, and there really is no return on investment for us?  A lot of parents find that out.  In the "best" of homes. (ie/Hunter Biden)  I get it -- all of you are convinced you are raising the one who finds the cancer cure, or goes into medicine and saves the world, or contributes as an "essential" worker -- say a trash collector -- even.  But... a lot of the little ones, sadly, flame out.

It takes a family to raise a child.  If you get community help, bully for you.  But the way society is structured today, strong independent families seem to produce the best educated and best prepared children, more than those who see their children as tax-deductible write-offs and rely on the community to chip in and do the the family's essential work...

If the whole thing is predicated on the "I make baby workers to pay into your Social Security" Ponzi who are necessary to support you in your older age, how about a better way?  You take care of you and yours (ask your husband to get a second job, or help him work his way up the career ladder, if you need more money to run your household), and in turn, we won't ask your children for anything as we age.  We can invest our tax savings for our own future needs.  An awful lot of older people honestly don't rely on resources outside of their own family and the competitive marketplace to survive.

Honestly.  You're kidding yourself if you think reproducing yourself is the only way a person contributes to society.  Don't thank us today for supporting your families, just start thinking more independently about how you will take care of the children as the government largess continues to dry up...

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Elizabeth Bruenig

@ebruenig

what you want to appear to be saying is that children ought not be valued strictly as means to an end, but what you're actually saying is that you think nobody has any obligations to society as a whole. the former is true, the latter is not.

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@joquji5n324il

· 9h

Replying to @EvelynxPrime and @ebruenig

I've seen this repeatedly today from parents and it's telling. Wanting to be taken care of, or not wanting to be lonely, are selfish reasons to have kids.  

No one should be brought into this world for those reasons. Kids aren't societal commodities to keep the status quo running.not. 

Being rich is very hard.

@EvelynxPrime

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8h

*you* will require them, parents will raise them and then *you* will need them. *you* don't want to pay into making sure they get what they need to thrive, and *parents* are the selfish ones? Come on.