No idea why you think Tyler is implying adults are better than kids (they are of course, but I’ll get to that later). You don’t have to spend nearly as much effort and resources taking care of your adult friends as your kids, and you can get away from the firmer but are stuck with the latter all day, every day, for 20 years.
No idea why you think Tyler is implying adults are better than kids (they are of course, but I’ll get to that later). You don’t have to spend nearly as much effort and resources taking care of your adult friends as your kids, and you can get away from the firmer but are stuck with the latter all day, every day, for 20 years.
But also, children are horrible conversationalists, aren’t very intelligent, and rarely have interesting stories.
Like many people writing on fertility, it just seems like you struggle to really comprehend that people have vastly different preferences from you. Many people just don’t really enjoy spending time with kids. It would be work. This seems akin to not grasping some people don’t share your taste in food or enjoy the same hobbies. It’s not that we’ve never met kids and have no idea what they’re like; I’ve been around a lot of kids and know that I wouldn’t enjoy spending most of my waking hours with small children. As others have pointed out, this is why such extensive subsidies are required to even modestly boost fertility: for many or most people, fraternizing with children simply isn’t as fun as it is for you.
No idea why you think Tyler is implying adults are better than kids (they are of course, but I’ll get to that later). You don’t have to spend nearly as much effort and resources taking care of your adult friends as your kids, and you can get away from the firmer but are stuck with the latter all day, every day, for 20 years.
But also, children are horrible conversationalists, aren’t very intelligent, and rarely have interesting stories.
Like many people writing on fertility, it just seems like you struggle to really comprehend that people have vastly different preferences from you. Many people just don’t really enjoy spending time with kids. It would be work. This seems akin to not grasping some people don’t share your taste in food or enjoy the same hobbies. It’s not that we’ve never met kids and have no idea what they’re like; I’ve been around a lot of kids and know that I wouldn’t enjoy spending most of my waking hours with small children. As others have pointed out, this is why such extensive subsidies are required to even modestly boost fertility: for many or most people, fraternizing with children simply isn’t as fun as it is for you.