• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    29 minutes ago

    It’s not really comparable, my mom didn’t buy a PlayStation because she couldn’t afford it.

    Now I don’t have a kid because it’s expensive and I can’t afford it … But it’s totally different

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 hour ago

    Actually, given how ass-tastic Sony has been lately, I’d say mom made the right call without knowing so.

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 hours ago

    Congratulations on not having a child! You deserve attention and praise, but most of it is going to go to expectant parents who are probably just going to fuck things up for everyone, for generations to come. But I see you. You rock.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    5 hours ago

    My mother went and got another daughter so she has access to a grandbaby cause me and twin sure aren’t ever making any. Especially now we’re almost 40.

  • abc@suppo.fi
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    5 hours ago

    I would never ask my adult children to make me grandchildren. Because their mother’s gene pool should not be continued.

  • Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    27
    ·
    7 hours ago

    My dad doesn’t say it but he wanted the family line to continue. I don’t care, humans will continue without this mix of DNA.

    He never needs to know I got a vasectomy back in my 30s.

    • IronBird@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 hours ago

      i’m in a field filled with big ego/low emotional intelligence people and it’d wild to me how obsessed with “legacy” so many of them are.

      no one even knows about you, why would they care about your family line? the most history will remember 99.999% of us is some obituary in a newspaper noone reads. the only way

      all caught up in the rat race wasting their lifes chasing a fulfillment/acknowledgement they’ll never recieve from the boss/org while burning what little potential for human connection they actually have by overworking so much.