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The Madcap

(562 posts)
4. I see where they got their Ph.Ds...
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 07:42 PM
Dec 10

T**** University, or an equivalent box of Cracker Jack.

Young people don't want to spend their entire youth having kids and working for peanuts when they could be having a good time. Once you hit about 35, it's really difficult to do that. I don't begrudge them one bit. In fact, I'm envious of their youth and energy.

If education provides better opportunities, why would any rational person not pursue it. What do they want? Cave men and women just going at it all day and pumping out kids by the dozens and then going off to work in some menial job that takes about a week of training, tops? That's not a life. These fools don't seem to understand that we don't get multiple shots at this thing called life. We need to enjoy it and do the best we can with the one chance we get.

You want birth rates to improve? Do this:

1. Make having babies affordable
2. Make daycare affordable
3. Make school affordable
4. Make college affordable
5. Make jobs pay better
6. Provide support to parents because raising kids is hard.

This isn't going to happen as long as people are treated like serfs in our country.

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