I don't believe we should be having kids in this economic environment. Hear me out.
You're probably pretty pissed that your parents didn't have shit to offer and now you are stuck in an endless cycle of wage slavery barely getting by for 50+ years. I'd be there, too, if I hadn't “married up” to a higher caste.
So my logic here is that having children of your own to suffer in poverty with you is inflicting the same generational poverty and hellish existence on yet another generation simply because “you wanted” them, despite being unable to give them a decent life. Even though It isn't your fault you can't provide them with a decent start in life, but seeing as most of us cannot, and are aware that our lives are generally pretty miserable, why do so many people still do it? Is it not the definition of selfishness?
Is it not more prudent to forgo having children then? Why create more cogs for the capitalist machine? We can vote all we want but we see how well that's worked for us. We've worked hard, and that hasn't worked for us. The hot take is that we can only “fix” things by non-action. Don't buy stupid pointless shit, (especially from Amazon,) collectively on a monthly basis why not we pick a brand or product to not buy any of as to hurt those industries en masse, we can organize call-out protests where we simply don't show up for 10 days straight and watch them squirm. (Apparently the government has told on themselves and 10 days is just too much to miss work, even if harboring a deadly virus. (Thanks Covid.)
And we can choose to not make more cogs for the capitalist machine as long as it takes until things improve.
The system as we know it isn't changing anytime soon. It's 2022 and the minimum wage is still $7.25.
Most of us don't have health insurance or have shitty insurance. Is is not selfish to bring children into a capitalist hellscape to suffer similarly as you, and how can you or anyone else justify it aside from a shallow assumption their life will just magically be better and hoping that they'll just escape the rat race on their own without you being able to provide the tools in which to assure some class mobility?
Is anyone's selfish desire to fall into the status quo and have a family worth bringing another innocent into the world to suffer for 80 years the way most of us do? Is there any good or selfless reason to have kids in this dumpster fire? Is there any reason that doesn't start with “I wanted…?”