Neocon wsj writers decide that “waiting until you can afford to have kids when you’re old” is normal because they want you to slave away at your jobs all so that capitalists can accrue more and more. If bullshit like this becomes mainstream then they can justify extracting more and more out of you indefinitely until you die empty handed and completely unfulfilled. They’ll raise the retirement age, lower your benefits, and make sure you have no way to pass down any generational wealth. Forget your kids having grandma and grandpas!
I’m on a plane across the country because my mother just died from a stroke at the age of 61. I’m 32. She’ll never see grandchildren from me (her only child) and she’ll never see what I amount to fully. There’ll be no reconciliation for the terrible childhood and whatnot. I figured maybe when I had kids that maybe things could be more fixed. It won’t happen now. My father will likely die soon because he doesn’t have a strong will to live on his own and is in much worse health than my mother. He should’ve died three years ago when he had a heart attack but he got very lucky that the ambulance came when it did.
I would’ve had kids already but due to the insane market we’ve had going on in the USA - I couldn’t afford to start a family and had to divorce my ex wife due to financial issues. I’m an exceptionally well earning person - in the top 1%. But my wife wasn’t and so we couldn’t afford to start a family in the Bay Area and decided to move on. We didn’t want to be stuck with dealing with greedy landlords and no privacy.
I hate articles like this because it tries to normalize what isn’t and should never be normal.
So sorry for your loss. I was roughly your age when I lost my father and had to travel across the world to attend his funeral. Your comment resonated with me so much that I'm pretty much done for today wrt to work, I can't think of anything else. Thank you for sharing.
I’m on a plane across the country because my mother just died from a stroke at the age of 61. I’m 32. She’ll never see grandchildren from me (her only child) and she’ll never see what I amount to fully. There’ll be no reconciliation for the terrible childhood and whatnot. I figured maybe when I had kids that maybe things could be more fixed. It won’t happen now. My father will likely die soon because he doesn’t have a strong will to live on his own and is in much worse health than my mother. He should’ve died three years ago when he had a heart attack but he got very lucky that the ambulance came when it did.
I would’ve had kids already but due to the insane market we’ve had going on in the USA - I couldn’t afford to start a family and had to divorce my ex wife due to financial issues. I’m an exceptionally well earning person - in the top 1%. But my wife wasn’t and so we couldn’t afford to start a family in the Bay Area and decided to move on. We didn’t want to be stuck with dealing with greedy landlords and no privacy.
I hate articles like this because it tries to normalize what isn’t and should never be normal.