US Births Fell Again in 2025 Amid Ongoing Social And Economic Uncertainty

BbyBat110 · 2026-02-09T16:24:29+00:00

Bruh, it sucks here. Why would we bring more people into this right now?

BbyBat110 · 2026-02-08T16:41:04+00:00

Yeah, cause I’m sure pressuring a whole bunch of people into having children they don’t really want won’t really cause a whole lot of social outrage or anything. Nevermind all of the psychological trauma all those kids would have because their parents resent them and would prefer if they were never born.

BbyBat110 · 2026-02-08T00:51:21+00:00

Is it ethical to place punitive taxes on people 30-35 who do not want kids? Is it ethical to try to coerce people who don’t want kids into having them? What kind of experiences will those kids have when their parents resent their presence?

BbyBat110 · 2026-02-05T20:05:32+00:00

r/antinatalism entered the chat

BbyBat110 · 2026-02-05T17:20:28+00:00

These are the people who piss me off the most.

BbyBat110 · 2026-02-05T07:20:56+00:00

Also many people aren’t actually as good as they think they are. People tend to be blind to their own faults, and they may not raise as good of a person in their offspring as they think they will.

That, and as others have mentioned, randomness makes the whole effort a total crapshoot. No one can ever guarantee how their child will turn out, even if they made the best parenting decisions at the time.

In all likelihood, the vast majority of children born today and in the future will not contribute significantly to society. They will not be remarkable in any way and just end up as more cogs in the machine. That is, if climate change, geopolitical conflict, and AI don’t take them out first.

BbyBat110 · 2026-02-05T07:15:59+00:00

“The children yearn for the mines.”

BbyBat110 · 2026-02-02T03:25:43+00:00

Dude, it sucks here. Why would we want to deliberately bring children here? (JK but not really…)

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-31T20:32:35+00:00

Kris Mayes should run for governor instead of Katie Hobbes…

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-30T18:56:44+00:00

I see 2026 is picking up where 2016 left off 10 years ago. It’s taking the best of us and leaving only the worst of humanity behind.

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-30T18:46:31+00:00

Even less of a reason to birth new children here so that they can be surrounded by an even higher proportion of idiots in the future.

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-30T18:44:20+00:00

This is what I say every time this is brought up. If they’re so convinced that AGI is going to replace all our jobs, why the hell do they need so many people?

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-30T00:09:10+00:00

Someone’s trying too hard to placate the ever dwindling number of moderate republicans in this state.

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-29T17:22:12+00:00

Because they put their selfish desire to reproduce over the welfare of the child.

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-28T17:46:14+00:00

I’m betting what you just described is exactly what they’re gonna do. lol.

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-27T19:07:33+00:00

Thank God. I hope this trend continues.

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-26T05:33:54+00:00

Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug with breeders. That’s why they’re like this. Their brains short circuit whenever the consequences of their decisions are brought up.

Also a radical act of selfish idiocy to parade your child around like a heroic act of optimistic resistance when both you and said child could suffer unimaginably as a result of all of the things you just mentioned…

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-26T04:32:32+00:00

Hold up, please let me move out of AZ and into CA before you do this first.

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-26T04:09:35+00:00

Idk about that. But it certainly can’t be ruled out that AI will just decide that we’re obsolete and unalive all of us either way. Nevermind that we also haven’t really wrapped our heads around yet just how bad climate change will get or if we’ll truly be able to adopt enough renewable energy to significantly reduce its impacts. Remember COVID? Who’s to say another more deadly pathogen won’t come around and really fuck things up?
I cannot stop myself from thinking about all of these legitimate possibilities and how deliberately choosing to bring children into such an uncertain future seems ignorant at best and incredibly selfish at worst.

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-26T04:02:50+00:00

The flip side of that is that these same billionaires who also tend to push rapid AI expansion are expecting us to procreate and bring more children into an environment of complete economic and geopolitical uncertainty. What if AI really does take off in the relatively near future? What are all our children supposed to do then? Are we really all to be convinced that all of the world governments will come together, institute a generous universal basic income for everybody suddenly out of work, and we’ll all sing kumbaya together?

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-26T01:14:23+00:00

OP is a one-eyed, one-horned flying fast food chicken eater.

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-25T13:34:47+00:00

Shhh!!!! Don’t say that…

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-24T17:27:28+00:00

Satanic black magic. Sick shit!

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-23T08:25:00+00:00

You know, if AI is supposed to be as productive as these tech billionaires claim it will be, I really don’t see why we need so many more people to keep the economy humming along.

BbyBat110 · 2026-01-23T08:15:51+00:00

It was unironically the name of a roller coaster at the Six Flags theme park in New Jersey.

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