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Trade alert:

Your parents get serotonin and dopamine

You get lifetime of wage slavery

You have no say in this trade deal.

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

lIfE iS a BleSsInG

[–] zante@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Redacted@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

imdumbandstillusethistoarguewithanythingidisagreewith

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I'm 36 and this is exhausting.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

May not be deep, but it's pretty accurate.

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The anti-natalists have a point.

[–] TonoManza@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

Counter point: you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them".

Anti-natalism is just disguised facsist eugenics, in the same vein as eco-facsism.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

But how will the wealthy grift if there is not a steady supply of morons to take advantage of?

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And this is why I’m sterile.

I don’t want to be here, and I sure as shit don’t want to do that to someone else.. plus I don’t want to take care of some miniature asshole version of myself; I’m bad enough to deal with.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 0 points 2 weeks ago

I can barely tolerate guests. No way can I do that to myself let alone make someone stay with me who has no say in the matter.

[–] primarybelief@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There's actually no definitive proof that you didn't ask to be here. Maybe you were some ethereal blob before who did choose and just have no memory of it.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You could say nothing is true and everything is possible but that would be an argument from ignorance and also a Russian propaganda technique.

[–] TonoManza@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

TIL: that a religious belief dating back hundreds/thousands of years (that humans consented to take the "test of life") is really just Russian propaganda from 2014.

[–] Frittiert@feddit.org 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But was it really me then?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago

Calm down, Theseus.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

and don't forget to add taxes to that list

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

I'd pay even more taxes without a single complaint if they got big businesses and the uber rich to actually pay their taxes correctly and fully

[–] blibla@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 weeks ago

i don't get this, what's costing you this much monthly about your parents?

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 0 points 2 weeks ago

I remember for quite a while, the only thing keeping me going was spite. The worst people in the country wanted me dead (or at least starving in the street), so I had to keep hanging on or they'd win