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I think it is reasonable to not have kids if you think the probability of an acceptable quality of life for them is too low.

I only agreed to have kids because I have a spouse who earns above average and I feel secure that we will be able procure resources and equip the kids well, but I think would have been just as happy if I had not had kids.

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if you are posting on HN and you have children today, their baseline quality of life is better than 99.999% of that of recorded human history.

No doubt about that, and I make no judgment about other people's criteria or even lack thereof for having or not having children.

me neither, because there's no point in trying to convince someone to change their mind about whether or not to act upon their own primary biological instinct that they've been taught to suppress—it's a self-correcting problem, and one that most certainly doesn't concern me.

I would say it is better than 100%. When was that .001%

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