Future looks bleak as fuk

Unironically feel bad for the kids these days, literally getting destroyed from all sides.

Have you seen the parents? the mothers look like whores the men are tatted up looking like losers.

This generation can be summed up in two words sex and tattoos.

Sloots have more tats than men these days too.

Complete circus

I know people who are poor as hell and keep popping out kids. All I feel bad for is the kids themselves, because they will be the next generation's train wrecks.

I have two kids split time and do pretty well financially compared to most, and it's still a struggle.

Are they already using smartphones and social media?

Go outside, it’s not as bad as they tell you it is.

I feel worse for the parents of kunts like Kormo and wincel

My kids? Hell, no. Still very limited screen time and they are 11 and 9.

Social media and access to porn corrupting young minds is an interesting concept and I do wonder how kids these days function in relationships. I meet plenty of teenagers as part of work- most are awkward as phuck, some are ok, and others are downright rude/belligerent/don't respect their parents.

Maybe me and my mates were just phucked cause I remember going to great lengths just to download a 30sec clip of basic poosay on limewire etc and hide it on the family PC at that age, now boys could be watching wild gangbang chit in 4k from the comfort of their bedroom. Maybe it's balanced out by all the politically correct awareness that was less of thing in the 00's than it is now.

I would definitely not allow smartphones until teenage and then limit that pretty hard too if I were a parent. There is no real need for them anyway at that stage of life.

Finance is the other interesting side. I don't have kids (yet) but the thought of not being able to easily help them out financially worries me, cause costs of just keeping up already are high enough paying mortgage/bills/tax etc. Feels like I'll be working forever to pay for them/help them.

Would be interested to hear other miscers' views on both aspects, particularly those in late 20's-30's who haven't had big financial help/investment portfolios from real estate boom in recent years.

same

having kids makes 0 sense in 2024

Doing our best to provide a good life and raise our boys right.

This, plus limiting processed foods

If I ever have kids they're going to private school. 100%.

Two groups of people in the USA:

People reproducing on "accident"

people waiting until they hit financial retirement to start a family. I'm not joking, most moms I see with elementary aged kids are 40+ or early 20s.

I don't think you want to shield them. You sound like you turned out fine with social media around.


I'd say the smart people can discern social media from reality and make good choices.

Social media is legit low iq activity.

I’ll be ok if he finds a hobby message board or something.

But subjecting yourself to an algorithm designed to manipulate you. where companies pay some tech overlord to allow them to be vassals in their kingdom, manipulating and peddling their wares to the serfs who populate it and mindlessly fund a new tech feudalism…. Is some real fukking low iq chit.

I'm in the second group but I want a 20 year old wife when I'm 40.

I think you're missing the point. Shielded people turn out to be degenerates because they have no concept of the real world and no ability to navigate it.

I didn’t have social media when I was a teen. Diablo 1 and 2 chats don’t count
The modern social media is designed to be addictive and take advantage of natural pleasure circuitry, so it’s just best to avoid it until more developed cognitively imoThis is the same thinking as “homeschooled kids turn out weird”. Don’t give into that

Unfortunately the kids themselves aren't going outside, so it is as bad as we think it is for them.

You make a good point- the message boards/forums are only steered by what the users talk about (and mods), usually somewhat unified by some common interest/theme (like bb.com but who really lifts on the misc haha). It's a shame they have mostly died out. The misc is still reasonably active (though nothing on 10-15 years ago). Social media is chit, with algorithm-driven content and a bunch of randoms who you'll likely never encounter again or become familiar with like you can get on a forum.Probably like this in the wealthier parts of the western world too. Those in the middle exist (30's comfortable but not with huge buffers) but they're struggling to keep it all together- I know plenty of them and am very hesitant to jump into it as well.

These are so key. My 11 year old is going to middle school next year and already knows she's getting a flip phone, not a smart phone and she's fine with it. One kid is in dance, one is in gymnastics. They get zero internet time at home like Youtube or anything else besides school related. And we have zero video game time and structured television time.

Both kids are top of their classes, healthy and happy. Imagine that.