“My fifteen year old read something online and now he wishes he wasn’t born” is far bleaker than that.
Fifteen is a heady time for anyone. You think and do a lot of things that an older, more mature person would avoid.
I might add on top of that, the goal of the modern billionaire class is eugenics. You don’t “win” by not having kids. You certainly don’t “win” by killing yourself.
He’s not wrong completely. People have no say in getting born, and for many of them they have a sad difficult life and the people being born now will see the ecosystem truly collapsing. We will survive as a species but it’s going to be a challenging time to be alive.
“My fifteen year old read something online and now he wishes he wasn’t born” is far bleaker than that.
Fifteen is a heady time for anyone. You think and do a lot of things that an older, more mature person would avoid.
I might add on top of that, the goal of the modern billionaire class is eugenics. You don’t “win” by not having kids. You certainly don’t “win” by killing yourself.
He’s not wrong completely. People have no say in getting born, and for many of them they have a sad difficult life and the people being born now will see the ecosystem truly collapsing. We will survive as a species but it’s going to be a challenging time to be alive.
That cuts two ways.
This is all just hollow doomerism. And it has been going on for centuries.
“No one should be born if they might have a marginally less comfortable life than their parents” is just warmed over eugenics for liberals.
You’re stripping subsequent generations of any agency and denying them a chance to improve on a planet you keep insisting your generation ruined.
It is the ultimate “pulling up the ladder behind you” mentality.
A challenging time filled with bright new opportunities. Challenges and opportunities you seem to think nobody after you is entitled to tackle.