The problem though is that AI reduces the number of places to work at which will increase the competition between applicants. If some employers start doing this there will be applicants that will pay to get ahead. How big of an issue this becomes depends on how big of a competition AI will place on job seekers.

Why would anyone assume that a child free person would automatically need anywhere near as flexible schedules? To do what? Tend to your horses? You seriously underestimate how much extra time raising kids take, whether due to unforseen circumstances or not. I guarantee you, even with all the supposed privileges these parents receive they are drowning by the added workload and they are more stressed at work than they were before having kids.

Fair point, and my mistake. But what these parents receive is humanity, not privelage. This is like a rich person complaining about poor people receiving economic support. Help should be bestowed to those in need.

You say “it takes a village” but how are you, as a childfree person which is complaining about others receiving aid that you yourself do not need, being part of said village? What is your contribution?

The money needed to pay for all elderly people in society is not purely from the taxes we pay whilst we work. We who pay taxes now, are also paying for retired people. If the ratio between retired and non retired is too skewed the quality of life will reduce for the elderly and the retirement age will also have to go up to cover these costs.

I simply meant that if enough people do not provide to the pool of working adults this retirement ratio will be affected. Most economic systems in the west are based on the assumption that people will have kids. Without them there will a deficit since the pool of older people will cost a lot more than what society can handle.

I regret using the word “leech” and I agree that it was too harsh. But if enough people stop producing offspring we end up with a behaviour that is not far from parasitic in that they will at some point expect others to pay for them, others who not exist.

Given the state of the world I totally get why people do not want to have any kids. But I do not understand why people hate on parents so much when they are actually providing something of societal value. So when someone wants you to imagine what it is like to have a second job, this second job is, in fact, indirectly supporting future you as well.

Obviously some people cannot have children and that is fine. It becomes a problem when there is a wave of people who will not. Again, understandable but problematic. I kind of get r/fatpeoplehate vibes from these discussions and it made me react.

I may have come of as a hater of the childfree life but I am definitely not. I just can’t stand those who complain about others having children. I am if the opinion that you have to choose to have children or not. Neither will make you superior.

Well when you get old and stop working those kids will pay back by paying taxes themselves. That is the part you missed.

Yes and when you get old and stop working those kids will pay for you. You do realise that a declining population is problem for this reason, right?

They being people who breed

Well you can bitch and moan all you want about breeders but the fact remains that their offspring will finance society as you age.

I am a parent myself and I see reproduction as the most egotistical thing you can do. At the same time those who do not are more or less leeches from a societal perspective.

I the end we are all free to chose paths but stop complaining about the choices others have made. Yours do not make you superior.

With this administration the only thing that would happen is that the aforementioned species would be dropped from federal protection.

Oh god

Under the right fan. Although, it looks like there is a card there already.

Yes but appdata subfolder is local, locallow or roaming so the poster above you is still correct.

Quite literally, I would say.

Everyone having AC is a good way of accelerating climate change