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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      So maybe childless people shouldn't treat parents as people who just made a choice they regret ("Why are you complaining about how hard it is to own a yak? No one made you buy a yak") because it's a socially necessary job But think about that first

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      This would be a decent argument if we lived in a communal society, the kind of society we probably should live in I might be invested in your struggles to take care of your kids if I actually did know that your kids were going to help take care of me when I'm old But I don't

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      Parents who say this kind of thing talk like everyone they're speaking to is well off and has a retirement plan, like we've all got well funded 401ks and can afford long term care insurance "Whose grandkids are gonna be changing your bedpan in 50 years" I dunno, maybe nobody

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      Your kids *might* "take care of me" or they might abandon me to die in the street Your kid might fuck me out of what financial security I have once I become politically inconvenient Your kid might lay me off or evict me

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      That's the whole POINT of this whole spat We live in a society, as they say, and not a very nice one We aren't given the expectation of some kind of reciprocal obligation among everyone We dispose of everyone who becomes disposable in short order

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      And parents who feel disposable relative to childless adults because all they see are their colleagues at work having fun with their extra free time don't see the big picture when they call childlessness a "privileged" state Everyone becomes disposable when they're old

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      And you know who's most disposable of all? Someone who becomes old, or disabled, or unemployable, or otherwise "useless" who doesn't have anyone tied to them by blood or obligation

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      Obviously parents actually do know this and although they often refuse to admit it this is a major, massive, completely selfish reason to have kids "I don't want to die alone I want someone young to visit me, someone to be connected to when all my friends are dead or dying"

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      It doesn't always work, obviously, we've all heard stories of old people who haven't seen their kids in years (often, ironically, because their kids are busy with their own kids) But it's a decent strategy, sure

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      I just wish parents would admit that this is a thing and that it is a fundamentally selfish motivation Unless you experience the worst case scenario of disowning or being disowned by your kids, your kids' emotional obligations will be to you in 20 years, not to me

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

      Yeah I mean they'll pay *taxes* to support me in certain ways just as I have to pay taxes to support them now Whoop-de-fucking-do Social services in this country ain't shit Most of the "care" you think I'll receive from your grandkids I'll have to pay for, and pay a lot

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

          It doesn't have to be that way, and maybe it won't be that way in a glorious communist utopia But in the world as it is right now, it looks a lot like you having kids is you investing in YOUR future, not mine, certainly not the future of the whole human race

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

          That's... how it's always been, it didn't use to be controversial to say this Our ancestors were very blunt about the fact that they saw their families as in competition with other families and that fecundity was an expansionist move to claim territory for their side

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Jul 2020

          If you don't see it that way great but you're going to have to demonstrate that you don't instead of asking me to take it on faith From where I'm sitting families are just as willing to viciously tear down other people's kids and parents for their own kids and parents as ever

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        1. Merrick Green‏ @MerrickGreenVM 3 Jul 2020
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          I mean, I think your entire argument here could have just been "Social services in this country ain't shit" and that pretty much sums up everyone's complaints about everything.

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