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>>Berisl+(OP)
I’m not a doomer, but I also kind of look at it this way. I was born in 1978 and I no longer live in the same world.

I don’t look at it as doom but just as a period of very rapid change. As the Chinese saying goes, living in interesting times is a blessing and a curse.

I don’t know what happens next, which is both interesting and scary especially when I think about my kids. They could end up living in a collapsing failed state (or worse) or in a post-scarcity technosphere or something I am not imagining.

>>api+l4
I find it really difficult to imagine how are people OK with bringing new children into this world, I don't even live in a particulary poor or horrible country.

>>emptyf+i5
In many ways it’s the best world to bring kids into, ever. As a middle class American I live better than an Egyptian pharaoh.

Except that a cloud of uncertainty hangs over it.

But a cloud of uncertainty is not worse than, say, constant starvation and plagues or eternal tribal wars. Would you bring a child into the world of the black plague? The Bronze Age collapse?

There has never been and will never be a utopia, especially one that can project into the future without fear. Having children means both blessing and cursing them with existence in a universe that apparently is not safety tested.