Ned Simmons

Is it selfish to choose not to have kids?

Pensions aren't savings accounts. They're transfer systems: today's workers fund today's retirees, on the promise that the next generation will do the same. When birth rates fall below replacement, which they have across the entire developed world, the math breaks and the options are raising retirement ages, cutting benefits, or importing workers. The childfree professional collecting a full pension at 65 is the direct beneficiary of other people's children, and there's no way to restructure that fact. You can absolutely choose not to have kids. Just don't pretend the check you cash at retirement is unrelated to other people's nurseries.

Genuinely think the people most against this are the ones whose side benefits from low turnout. If everyone voted the whole political industry would have to change its pitch.

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The integration argument cuts the other way for me. Gmail, Maps, and Calendar work together because one company built them, and splitting them apart punishes users for a crime the product team did not commit. Fix the conduct, not the company.

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The legal bill argument is the sleeper here. Federations have burned millions on equal-pay litigation that a clear standard would have avoided. Standardization is cheaper than the lawyers.

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