• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I don’t owe the future anything.

    I don’t give a fuck if our species survives. Why should I?

    Everything ends someday.

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      9 days ago

      The issue is we don’t just go straight from point A to B, rather there’s a long period of suffering.

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      8 days ago

      Well for one, I hope you don’t plan to take out any form of retirement or invest in the stock market, including via index funds, because that’s leeching off the productivity of young people in the future.

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        8 days ago

        It’s immoral to leech off other people’s children tax money, sure.

        But also no one wants to be a sucker doing 20+ years of unpaid labor raising kids, so someone else 's S&P 500 keeps growing and sustains a very comfortable retirement plan, and no one will even help you with raising kids anymore.

        It’s really the system’s fault, not individuals. It makes it lucrative for every individual human to give as little back, and take as much from everyone else.