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Maybe it's the student debt, or the career punishment, or the existential dread of bringing a child onto this dying planet, or maybe because of the fact that being pregnant has never been more dangerous because of the overturn of roe, or maybe its because its literally impossible for most people to buy a home, or the complete loss of financial freedom, or the absolutely dysfunctional dating environment where you can't even get people to text you back, or it could be the absolute financial impossibility of it with pay being unable (gotta have them record profits) to keep pace with inflation, or maybe the shitshow of the healthcare situation in this country, perhaps the complete and systematic undermining of the education system in this country, or maybe the complete absence of social support, or maybe it's the fact that so many people have 2 jobs and a side-hustle and don't have time to date let alone procreate, or that people can't even save to retire, or maybe that peoples' mental health is on a slow decline from the world falling apart, or maybe because children are already talking care of their declining parents.
And now the slow motion trainwreck that is the collapse of the American government and society...
...Naaaw, we just need to pick ourselves up by our bootstraps and quit buying avocado toast.
No. We have South Korea's fate to look forward to.
Full disclosure, I have kids but can't imagine having another or being 10y back in my career and considering having kids.
Even as it is, I don't know how my kids will get educated. I feel guilty for bringing them into the shitshow.
/rant
I don't believe that you should feel this way.
The 'Citizens United' supreme court ruling must be overturned in order for things to bounce back especially for common folk. Otherwise, working and lower-middle class people will continue to suffer more and more.
As asterisks go, that's a large one.