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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • 60 years ago:

    Parent 1: I will work, make enough money for us to live well, buy a house, and retire while also supporting our children through adulthood.

    Parent 2: I will raise them, take care of the house and we will both enjoy some time together when the nanny helps.

    Now:

    Parent 1: I will work and make enough money for us to pay rent and buy food. I will also take care of the kids, and stay in when you are sick or working.

    Parent 2: I will also work and make enough money for us to pay for the kids education and basic needs. I will also take care of the kids and stay in when you are sick ir working.

    60 years ago it was nice because you were a family first and still had money to live well.

    Now these parents are workers first and still will be utterly screwed if an unexpected bill pops up (like a medical bill for those in the US or even a car breaking down)

    It’s not that being a parent sucks, is that parents (especially for young children and babies) need to be parents first, and today’s society is worker first, if you are lucky you can have a second title, for most that title is either “exhausted person” or a second job.












  • This is bad, why? Because our problem is plastic production, any reuse that does not reduce production is meaningless at it would all still break down into microplastics and new plasticts would still be produced.

    Nor recycling, no reuse, just abolishing the wode spread use of plastic. Plastic should be kept for tasks that are not convinced based, but rather exclusive to plastic (like medical usage, not like saving costs cause it’s cheap)