Children of You

And perhaps if you're rich and comfortable that's a fine argument.

But not seeing mention in this essay of things like climate change, the increasingly real prospect of a dystopic future, the widening income gap, anti-captialism, extremism, and a general bleakness of outlook felt by young people today feels myopic.

In the US, I don't see or hear a lot of optimism for the future from Millenials or Zoomers. What I do hear from them is prospect of bringing a child into a world running out of clean water, clean air, and arable land just to work in an ever more hostile world for billionaires who think you're expendable is a pretty good set of reasons not to bring a child into the world who will have to deal with it long after we're all gone. And, after the last pandemic there is little appetite for bringing a child into this world.