If you could sum it up into one short explanation as to why:
My wife and I don't believe that the future is going to be a better place.
Chief among the reasons are wealth inequality and buying power. If I can barely afford to buy a house now with a great job, I shudder to think what my kids would be faced with.
Human intellect is rare, and partly hereditary. Please pass your genes along - at least offer a sperm or egg donation.
I think that raising as many happy, healthy, intelligent and productive children as possible, with a suitable partner, is our very raison d'etre. Specifically for the high-IQ HN audience. Life and society becomes much simpler and more rewarding when you view things from this perspective.
That's just a logical argument, not whether or not you actually believe now is or isn't worth it. That's entirely subjective and not really worth arguing about IMO.
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Home prices in my old neighborhood in Louisville, KY have skyrocketed in the last several years as "shotgun" style homes have become trendy in the area. Last time I visited, I saw a one such home on the market for about $350K, which would've gone for roughly a 3rd of that about 15 years ago.
The housing affordability is being felt in a lot of places, not just the west coast.
There are many, many, many reasons why but I wouldn't expect the prices of homes across the world to drop when basically all interest rates have been at rock bottom for a decade. People with capital to leverage really have it made.
Also would you rather live in a society where:
A) GDP (or general productivity and availability of goods) increases by 3%. However this society has wealth inequality
B) GDP stays approximately flat or increases by only 0.1% / year but the society has perfect wealth equality.
What we're discovering is that this buying power isn't so important, affordable real-estate gives you stability and permanence that a 65" LCD TV and this years iPhone model just can't make up for.
To answer you're question, I'd say B whole be better in future, we're hitting limits on our ability to consume.
It is hard not to feel angry/pessimistic etc at the state of affairs. In a way, a lot of things have improved - crime rates are down compared to 50 years ago, medicine has made amazing strides, we can travel cheaply across the world, the internet has opened up a ton of opportunities etc. Still, more people are depressed/lonely, salaries are stagnating, there aren't many decent leaders (around the world) that we can look up to... If there is one thing that is guaranteed, it is that humans will mess up any good thing sooner or later :(
The answer is that just because something is happening, doesn't mean it's going to keep happening forever.