JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 1 day agoFrance sends letters to 29-year-olds telling them to get on with having childrenwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down12cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
arrow-up1104arrow-down1external-linkFrance sends letters to 29-year-olds telling them to get on with having childrenwww.independent.co.ukJensSpahnpasta@feddit.org to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square41fedilinkcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
minus-square1dalm@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·19 hours agoIt has nothing to do with money and everything to do with community. People aren’t having kids because communities have been hollowed out.
minus-squareSanctus@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·18 hours agoAnd communities have been hollowed out because everyone is out for 9 hours a day making money.
minus-square1dalm@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 hours agoMaking money… So that they can buy a tv so they can spend their last two hours of awake time alone watching tv.
minus-squareSanctus@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-217 hours agoCause my community meet up is totally at 8:30 PM directly after I put my kids down. I get it, if you want it you gotta put in the elbow grease. But this was done purposefully and it worked wonders.
It has nothing to do with money and everything to do with community.
People aren’t having kids because communities have been hollowed out.
And communities have been hollowed out because everyone is out for 9 hours a day making money.
Making money… So that they can buy a tv so they can spend their last two hours of awake time alone watching tv.
Cause my community meet up is totally at 8:30 PM directly after I put my kids down. I get it, if you want it you gotta put in the elbow grease. But this was done purposefully and it worked wonders.