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Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga
I'm looking at millenials today and it used to be you got early work experience in your 20s and then started into your professional career in your 30s and then you were making enough money to possibly get married and have kids and poo poo. But today those 20 year olds have a lot more going against them, they have a ton of student debt and the opportunities for advancement or even just getting a decent salary job are a lot harder to come by. Is this going to gently caress up the current generation and force them to get married and have kids in their 40s? Are we going to have a lot more retard babies as a result of the drop in fertility? Are all these hipsters just going to become lonely spinsters when they get older?

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Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga

Ill Peripheral posted:

lol yeah 40's is a good time to start a family

parents are gonna be old as gently caress now

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga

Ocean Book posted:

spending a large amount of money on a degree is pretty universally a bad idea, but arts degrees are actually pretty marketable given graphic design, branding, the fact that the entire internet is made out of images. maybe not if your degree is in museum curation or something, but even then you've probably had a curriculum that puts you in a good position to learn relevant and sellable art skills.

lol if you think people actually bothered to learn how to use photoshop instead of just "Art History"

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

I think like, more and more chicks are just getting into anal and stuff. :shrug:

This except it has me wondering if I'll find more career minded women in their 30s and 40s that are single or just used up single moms that put out too early.

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

there's no correlation between age of the mother and autism, but there sure as gently caress is with downs. it's very well documented.

what's the difference they're both sadbrains

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga

Percelus posted:

i've shopped for a lot of groceries in my time and i don't remember once being slightly phased or annoyed by a kid on a cart even if it's a rad af racecart i mostly just buy the poo poo i want/need and get out without minding the noise of parents with kids or whoever else is doing the same more or less :shrug:

counterpoint, I've shopped for a lot of groceries and have been inconvenienced plenty of times by little shitstains

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga

Percelus posted:

ya let's create arbitrary means testing for parents as a way of propping up capitalism's bloated corpse for another century

when we get too many feral deer in the wild we cull them

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga

Blue Star posted:

The thing is, even if we all wanted kids, is it even possible for all of us to have them? i know i wouldnt make a good parent, I'll probably never have my life entirely together enough to support a kid. And climate change and wars over fresh water and resources will gently caress them over. Not to mention even more disparity between the wealthy and every one else. Its all well and good to say that everyone should have kids because we'll become better people and its fulfilling and the responsible thing, but i dont know if its even possible. Like I said earlier, a lot of people are opting out of having kids, not because they wanna be bachelors or single forever woo hoo, but simply because they arent able to. A whole generation realizing they cant have what their parents had, even the simple basic poo poo like starting your own family. Many of us will probably never be able to retire and again, climate change is going to gently caress poo poo up within our lifetimes (assuming you're younger than 50).

I'm gonna dump my children on a bunch of single mothers.

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga

Inescapable Duck posted:

Always relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gimiDBAK2wA

Weddings have been a way to get people/their families to fork out as much money as possible for a long, long time, mind.

The cultures where the bride's family (or some weird mix of duties between the bride and groom's family members) handles all the wedding prep might be onto something, given if all goes well, the bride and groom just have to show up and follow instructions and offload all the stress, organisation and arguing to someone else.

Just do what asians do where marriages are just opportunities to milk your family for "donations" to support you two.

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga
30s is old as poo poo.

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga
When is an appropriate age to have a kid?

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga
Aren't your 20s the best year of your life?

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga

Three Olives posted:

24-26, still young enough to do stupid poo poo, old enough to have some direction in my life and responsibility, not old enough that I had strong opinions on zoning and city bond elections. 21-23 was pretty much an empty blur of alcohol, cocaine and sex with randos on alcohol and cocaine.

so by 30 you're just loving dead

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga
Are my dating options in my 30s going to be entirely weird cat ladies or single moms that got pregnant way too early?

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Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga
How old is too old to go after college chicks?

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