My issue with this video is that it was framed as some great tragedy. We've made a world where its not only completely cost ineffective to raise children, but also the reasons we had children in the past have been 'fixed' by modern development. Connectivity has increased over distance, so families no longer need 10 children to help upkeep the farm, healthcare has gotten better and more accessible (yes, even though it is often expensive we have access to preventative care that extends our life a lot) so there's less anxiety about little Timmy dying before he can reach age 4, and adults are able to save up pensions (well, theoretically, in practice its been getting harder to do that at all) so they can fund their care later in life instead of having to rely on children to take care of them - but also this is also a very white western ideal because on top of this, we have divorced the idea of family caring for family from our culture in favor of the Nuclear Family that kicks their child out at 18 to pick themselves up by their own bootstraps and get on in life (But of course this white man in the video didn't talk about that at all)

This all does lead back to like. A world where children aren't necessary, but thats GOOD. We shouldn't feel a NEED To pump out babies on the reg for things that we choose to impose on them. The idea that people are only having kids if they really really want them more often isn't a bad thing. I think if people had kids they openly wanted, it's a little better than just popping them out cause well we need help around the house and who will care for us when we're older (Bring back the idea of community, Jesus Christ).

We live in an era where we have automation, but instead of using it to improve peoples' lives and allow us to work less, its used to make us work more and work harder, threatening like a guillotine above our necks because 'well a robot can do your job! You better prove youre better than a robot, and do it for 8$ an hour!!'

“When the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money” 🌱

Silence in green