Literally the opposite of this is true. Not having kids is one of the single best things you can do for the planet.
(Still want to raise a child? Adopt! There are so many kids out there looking for good homes and people who will love and care for them)
174 6 Reply161 1 ReplyWe could just let people with babies immigrate into the country easily instead of forcing people already here to have extra.
Oh wait that's not the right kind of baby? Weird.
70 1 ReplyHow will you pay for them? Figure it out, loser!
67 0 ReplyOBEY
CONSUME
REPRODUCE
65 1 ReplyElon musk is just firing more and more people. What he want these kids to be? Steve Jobless?
53 1 ReplyPls refill workforce
No, we aren't paying you a living wage to make it feasible
Juck get fucked
47 1 ReplyI would like to ask that woman if she is pregnant right now. If not, call her a hypocrite
41 2 ReplyI feel like at this point you could just do the opposite of whatever old musky says and you'd be doing pretty alright for yourself.
39 0 ReplyIs this some stupid religious marketing campaign
33 1 Replydecades of don't have kids if you can't afford them and now it's "have kids! They yearn for the mines!"
32 1 ReplyCan't wait for my vasectomy next week
28 1 ReplyAll you need to know is that Everylife, the company behind this campaign, is a diaper trading company that officially pushes Christianity and fights "companies that have promoted the weakening of men in American society" and that "are pushing anti-family, anti-American agendas".
This is such a fucked up combo of right-wing politics and diapers I can't even
https://everylife.com/pages/our-mission
28 2 Replyoh i'm having sex, non procreative, that is
24 0 ReplyI literally can't take care of my own life well enough, how do you expect me to be a good parent? This is why I'm celibate.
Also, I feel like there's enough people in the world already. Why do you guys need more than 8 billion people?
24 1 ReplyAh yes, Elon Musk, a very trustable source of wisdom
23 1 ReplyMake more workers!
23 1 ReplyThis is hilarious.
Musk first came into my view talking about how earth is overpopulated and we need to go to mars to survive.
21 1 ReplyMake more babies to be sacrificed to feed the Capital God
21 1 ReplyOk, can you guarantee they will someday have a college education, housing, and Healthcare?
"NO! HAVE KIDS AND A SELECT FEW WILL WIN THE GENETIC LOTTERY AND BE ACCEPTED, THE REST CAN SUFFER."
Edit:
20 0 ReplySure, cool. Make health insurance cover my IVF then.
21 2 Replythey say have more babies then cheer as families drown in the rio grande
20 2 ReplyMKAE MORE WORKERS FOR US TO GRIND TO DUST
19 1 Replycapitalism requires constant population growth in order to sustain itself. The idea of unending exponential monetary growth cannot be sustained without unending population growth. for this reason every business, and every form of capitalism is doomed to eventual collapse. The only reason why it keeps going is because our fucking governments keep propping it up. this is why Elon musk's greatest fear is under population
20 2 ReplyMore of a white Christian nutcase thing than a capitalist thing specifically.
17 1 ReplyHell no. I struggle with being responsible for my own life and you want me to be responsible for more lives?
15 0 ReplyI feel like Elon and has this one covered
14 0 ReplyNope, I removed that option last January.
12 0 Replyah yes, bring new sapient life unwillingly into this dying world. give them no future to look forwards to
11 0 ReplyI'm so glad that someone leaked that Roe v. Wade was getting overturned. I scheduled my sterilization and I'm so so happy. There is still a LONG waitlist to get sterilized.
No babies, no periods, no cramps, no mood swings, life is good. (Bilateral Salpingectomy and Endometrial Ablation are an awesome combo)
10 0 ReplyMaybe the decision to have children is highly personal and should be left up to individual people to decide, either way?
9 0 Replymake more babies
How about, give us more money?
9 0 Replylooks at sign.
Looks at woman holding it
"Alright, let's go."
10 1 ReplyAbso-fucking-LUTELY not happening
8 0 ReplyBest I can do is vehement antinatalism
7 0 ReplyNah. Have fun on Mars with your space yachts by yourselves or whatever.
7 0 ReplyOh yeah of course! I forgot I have an extra million dollars lying around waiting for me to spend it on a child
6 0 ReplyOk someone give me this lady's id I just wanna talk, just talk.. ಥ_ಥ
6 0 ReplyIsn't more babies the reason for the bad side of capitalism, homelessness, and other issues that many complain about on Lemmy?
9 4 ReplyMaking them is easy. Caring for them is a very different thing. If corpos want me to make them, they better pay up
5 0 ReplyWe need more slaves and forgotten youth. /S
7 2 ReplyNah fam. Not for me.
5 0 ReplyDon't mind if I do.
4 0 ReplyAntinatalist here.
No.
Not having kids is literally the best thing I can do for my kids.
4 1 Replythis is really funny but I can't think of why
edit: despite what lemmy wants it to be, it's probably got nothing to do with capitalism or communism or any other systems of government (beyond 'haha billboard tell us to have sex')
5 2 ReplyAvoiding fertility tests is a crime
4 1 ReplyRemember guys. Make more babies. EVERY LIFE.
3 0 ReplyId put a baby in her and head out for a pack of smokes
1 3 ReplyUnequivocally based
2 4 ReplyOP’s take is dumb. That said, if we take it at face value:
Capitalism is when the system wants you to fuck.
State Communism is when you get a forced abortion if you’ve already got a kid.
I don’t think this is the strong argument you think it is, OP.
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