New York Times gift articles

Yeah, they keep writing this same article about falling birth rates while it's fucking obvious to anyone who lives a real life why. Most of us are stuck renting, all the social benefits boomers got have been rolled back, and there's the uncertainty of global warming and the American Empire declining while their leaders are in total denial about it instead of trying to manage it.

You don't want to start thinking about kids if you know that you could end up living in your car next week even if you're doing relatively well right now.

I think they see it as being tied to the economy. It's most likely just an extension of their terrible hustle culture

I usually hear it from one of two camps (or both at the same time).

1. The world (read capitalist economy) can’t continue to grow without ever-growing population.
2. The (Christian) Bible says that sex is for making babies. Getting married implies having sex. So, if you’re getting married you’d better be making babies.

Because they think that wageslaves are inherently uneducated, impulsive, and driven by their emotions.("facts don't care about your feelings")

This lead to the conclusion that in order to make more wage slaves, you should instill a guilt into those perceived uneducated, impulsive, emotional individuals to compel them to breed.

That is why they attack the antinatalist train of thought with emotionally charged, often factless, ideas. Because they, once again, think that we arrived at antinatalist not by a combination of observations of the world and foresight, but merely via emotion. So they manipulate that emotion. Also, there's no real arguing against the antinatalist position. It's observably verifiably the objectively better decision for us a society, at least for now.

This is something I worry a great deal about for my kid.

One of the many, many reasons I haven't had children. I'm not that pointlessly cruel to invent a new person from wholecloth for the express purpose of making them die in the fires.