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[–] veganpizza69 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quite the opposite, capitalists want more human resources, human capital. There's an entire ideology, at least centuries old, about this. You can most easily read about it as: pronatalism.

People aren't conditioned to think in a capitalist way, they're conditioned to think about their kids future not being worse than their present, since having kids can throw you into poverty.

[–] bouh 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some wrong language I guess. You talk capitalists as those who possess stuff, and you're right in this way. I talk about the liberal ideology of capitalism that produces consumer citizens and the glorification of individualism. The people a capitalist society produce.

[–] veganpizza69 3 points 1 year ago

Well, it takes a village to raise a child. The capitalist culture also brings this idea of "nuclear family" which generates this impossible situation for the "nuclear family" to afford kids. Of course, the other aspect of this is the eugenicist/fascist aspect of: only the rich can afford kids, so them it makes sense, this nuclear family. It's not a problem to have a nuclear family if you're rich, and you can just replace the village by paying for extra caretakers... another type of commodified relationship. The rich can afford to pay a woman to babysit for years, while that woman can't afford to have a family or to see her kids (often because her family is in a different country). Family for me, but not for thee.