I mean I don't think parenting *should* have material advantages, at least not guaranteed ones -- your kids aren't your employees and they shouldn't be obligated to "take care of you in your old age" But come on, you were just talking about the incomparable spiritual experience
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It's like when a bunch of monks set up a monastery up in the mountains to sleep on straw mats and live by themselves for 20 years and do as little as possible but pray
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And they tell you this brings them closer to God than you, that there's incomprehensible joy you'll never understand as a dumb heathen working stiff with your dreary material life surrounded by material crap Which is fair, I suppose Then they hit you up for a *donation*
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You just said your life was so much fucking better than mine, that my life was emptiness and ashes, and that the experience of your life can never be transferred to mine So why in the name of God should *I* be paying *you*? Aren't *I* the disadvantaged one?
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(This is tremendously unfair to actual monks, who in my experience aren't really like this, but is a pretty fair description of how a lot of publicly self-flagellating parents talk about it)
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I'm the one with a lonely empty life who's going to die in a medical facility after everyone I grew up with who understood me has already passed and a long twilight of knowing the world has left me behind and I've left no visible mark on it Why don't *you* give *me* money
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(I don't seriously mean the above but I do seriously think if you really, seriously cared about these issues you'd think harder about whether single adults with no blood family ties are "privileged", especially the poor and struggling ones you never meet at your tech company)
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