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The Open Donor Association exists to make family-building ethical, transparent, and deeply connected - for parents, donors, and the next generation.
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There seems to be an unfortunate cognitive failure mode where, for the goods we deem most important, it’s easier to sell the public on regulation/intervention/demand subsidies, while for many less critical goods we let the market work.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
Our World in Data updated the inflation by goods category picture through 2025. College prices have gone up the most. Fairly unregulated television? Real prices are way down.
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you need to understand that there is a coordinated, intentional effort to convince you that having children is a bad idea, unethical, evil even
this is not organic. no civilization in history has ever told its people not to reproduce
having a child is the single most rewarding experience any human being can have, nothing else comes even close
you will never feel ready, nobody ever does. who cares
rawdog it, figure it out later. these people despise you and everything you stand for. outbreed them
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In the thirteenth century the average age of a student at Oxford was 13. By 15, most girls could run an entire household. Boys were an expert in their trade by the time they were 18 and could support a family. Modern society seems to tell teenagers they are old enough for sexualization via media or dating but not old enough to gain any kind of competent life skills. And no, medieval people didn’t have shorter lives. When you actually read the biographies and history, you’ll find the lifespan was roughly the same (death in 70s-80s).
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America's demographic situation is grim, with 2/3 of counties having more deaths than births.
But compared to the other developed countries, America's outlook is pretty good. Most of Europe and East Asia are in overall population decline already.
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee
🚨 U.S. 🇺🇸 counties with more DEATHS than BIRTHS: 2010: 34% 2015: 43% 2020: 60% 2025: 65% 2030: Likely many more We need to change this. America 🇺🇸 needs to live. And to live it needs LIFE, children, and babies. 🚨
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Every single half-baked explanation for why fertility declined is downstream of the actual reason, which is young women "getting educated" and joining the work force en masse. People will say literally anything other than "women, at scale, are having careers instead of kids."
Lauren Chen@TheLaurenChen
Boomers don't want to hear this, but one of the (many) reasons why my generation isn't having as many kids? A lot of millennials feel they can't depend on their parents for help the way they saw their own grandparents pitch in when they were growing up
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Fisticuffs is a necessary part of male development. The supervised (often by “senior” boys) ensures that males are instructed in the proper way of settling disputes and what violations are worthy of violence.
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Boomers don't want to hear this, but one of the (many) reasons why my generation isn't having as many kids?
A lot of millennials feel they can't depend on their parents for help the way they saw their own grandparents pitch in when they were growing up
I,Hypocrite@lporiginalg
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Here's how you solve the birth rate collapse:
1. Cut pensions for senior citizens. This sounds cruel, but that money should go to fertile-aged and productive citizens. Furthermore, if everyone knows "there's no pensions for me in the future" then they will be incentivized to have children as an insurance policy. And they will be incentivized to treat those children well.
2. Increase taxes on wealthy senior citizens. The single greatest demographic shift over the last century is "geriatric burden." Once upon a time, people inherited from their parents or grandparents in their 20s or 30s. I just turned 40 and I haven't inherited anything. Instead, my biological grandparents are ALL still kicking around, spending money on themselves.
3. Give senior citizens a major tax break if they support their fertile-age descendants. Free healthcare, property tax breaks, the works.
It all comes down to incentives, and Boomers have spent decades building a system that reinforces the "fuck you I got mine." Meanwhile, prime age men and women are checking out because not only are expected to pay the lion's share of income tax, while raising families, we're also expected to care subsidize an entire geriatric population.
In a healthy society, intergenerational wealth transfer would be timely and supportive. But what we are living in is not natural or healthy. Humans were simply not meant to live this long. Consider that when Social Security was implemented, something like 2% of people expected to live past 65.
This policy may seem brutal, but so far as I know, absolutely no one has looked at the role that the geriatric burden has placed on productive-age members of society.
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Dear Japanese guys:
Get married, have a lot of kids and perpetuate yourselves. This is urgent.
🇺🇸🇯🇵
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We invented “teenagers”
Our society is rich enough to delay the true responsibilities of adult life, but many teenagers want to participate in society
We squander their interest in work by forbidding it (legally) and then wonder why they are withdrawn and frustrated
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History With Jacob@HistoryWJacob
The concept of "teenager" is a modern invention. For most of human history, a boy of 13 was already a man, apprenticed in a trade or fighting in a war. George Washington was a professional surveyor at 16. Alexander Hamilton managed a trading company at 14. In medieval Europe, noble boys could be pages at 7 and squires by 14. In Rome, a boy put on the "toga of manhood" at 14. The idea that an 18 year-old is "still figuring things out" would have been incomprehensible to our ancestors. I believe this is why we think teenagers are so troubled. They are men and women stuck in a society that treats them as children. Of course they are going to "rebel". We should give them more responsibility and expect much more of them.
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@dtmorgan18 Yep. I sat down and talked to a family friend about his “active” kid. While we were talking, he gave the kid a capri sun and some gummy bears because he was getting restless. Before they left, the kid had a couple of mini Snickers bars as well.
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We had 9 kids sleep over last night for my daughters birthday.
I’m 100% convinced that diet and behavior are correlated.
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The house I grew up in was just like this - the two bedroom version. Some of my favorite memories are sharing a room with my brother. We had a good sized backyard and friends in the neighborhood.
You can pack your family into a small place. Fertility crisis solved.
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We have three kids (girl, girl, boy) in one room for now, and we may split them if house and money permit.
But don’t define successful parenting in a way that means people only got rich enough to do it in the recent past.
We used to be in tenements!
extra mommy@thecavemommy
In my opinion it just gets a little weird when at the preteen age boys and girls are sharing a room. I think it’s fine for kids to share rooms - but it needs to be split by gender unless there’s a significant age gap. If you can’t afford a three bedroom house you can’t afford to be fertility-maxxing.
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If CPS can actually do this where you live, get the laws changed. If you can't get the laws changed, move.
𝙰 𝚆𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝙻𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜@Coleidoscopes
@TradAdvocate @Watchman_motto This sleeping arrangement is consider a hazard and can be reported to child services, to which they will demand correction.
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So much contemporary misery and anxiety is people refusing to acknowledge that "I am bound to nothing" necessarily implies "no one is bound to me." People want low barriers for entry and exit for themselves and then wonder why they end up alone.
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