• JayJLeas@lemmy.world
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    Get a job
    Move somewhere far away with my partner
    Start T
    Go low contact with my family
    Be happy
    Make friends
    Add to my tattoo sleeve

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    Eating less and exercising more some fat to get down to my healthy weight. While that is commonly called losing weight, I want to put some muscle on so really the focus is on losing fat.

    The goal is to have more energy and less issues with getting sweaty and tired in the heat, and have less dead weight getting in the way and wearing me out faster.

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    Really, I just want to figure out a way to make a stable, livable income without having to become a corporate wage slave again. The corporate wage slave part is negotiable.

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      Lol I’ve always wanted to get a pilots license to replace my commercial air travel, but damn is it expensive and even more expensive to fly anywhere and maintain the plane lmao

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        Yup. I started taking lessons, but then I needed a new bathroom, and after that was paid down I needed a new car, so I had to put it on hold. Hopefully I’ll get to pick it up again next year.

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    Get my last two kids through school and out of the house alive. Currently that goal is in jeopardy.

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    Have more memorable new experiences, advance in my career, get a bit more muscle definition, and buy a place of my own that I can gradually customize into something I’m happy to come home to :)

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        I’ve always wondered how bad things have to get before people say “no thanks, I’m good.”

        I know the answer is different for everyone, so I guess I would phrase it by percentiles, e.g. when would 75% opt out.

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          I think you’re making unacknowledged assumptions in your question that may cause it to have no answer. The most affluent people often have very low birth rates. The most challenged people often have very high birth rates. There may not be a point “so bad” that people don’t reproduce.

          People don’t reproduce for rational reasons. They are responding to a drive and have no insight into what informs that drive except by inference. But I still think there is a moral dimension to human reproduction and responding to a drive does not make it moot.

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            People don’t reproduce for rational reasons

            Some people clearly do reproduce (or more directly: not reproduce) due to rational reasons, as demonstrated by people opting out. The most commonly cited reason is finances, but I’ve also seen environmental concerns or societal factors related to gender (e.g. with 4B).

            Solid point though. The real question might very well be: what percentage of the population is willing to forgo reproduction due to adverse external conditions vs what percentage will continue even under extreme hardship?