This is really weird, like he's saying parenting has no material advantages *at all*, and really he's saying it has no spiritual advantages either, even though he just denied thathttps://twitter.com/marinakukso/status/1276633458308026369 …
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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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