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Selfish jerks can benefit the most from having kids :) Unless your legit nuts or completely broke, it is a good thing for all.

Having kids is like going to college. Its expensive, difficult and challenging.. but in the end, you are sad to think of what would have happened if you had not taken the plunge.

Sure it's presumptuous, but not as presumptuous as your substitution. Kids are a biological imperative, startups are not, so it's not quite that ridiculous-sounding.

humans are animal and as such we have the instinct to procreate. Maybe this is not true for all humans but most of them will feel that urge. Natural selection works pretty well on this: the one that don't feel that urge will be less likely to procreate and so to pass their genes to the next generation.