[catchnear4321]

that seems rather optimistic. more like plasma center/day care in low income neighborhoods.

would you blame a parent for taking their kid somewhere that gave them a good education, fed them well, and paid you, for just a little bit of their excess life force? you gotta weigh the pros and cons together. one man’s college education is another man’s immortality. everyone wins, just, not everyone wins as much.

[jkestner]

Of course I wouldn’t blame a parent for making the best of a dystopian kakistocracy to survive. Though I think increasing numbers of people are opting not to become parents to future environmental refugees/peasants/bloodbags in the first place.

[RelativeDelta]

Sadly it's the opposite. The people choosing not to become parents are exactly the people who would LEAST become climate refugees.

The vast majority of children today are being born in regions they will have to flee, while the regions they will flee to are hollowing themselves out.

The scenario leans towards a future where the very people who were best positioned to save the world chose not to because the challenge of it made them sad.

[coldtea]

>would you blame a parent for taking their kid somewhere that gave them a good education, fed them well, and paid you, for just a little bit of their excess life force?

Yes. It's those compromises that dig into dignity.

And also why people get to only have "excess life force" selling as their route to "good education, food, and payment".

[jacquesm]

Ira Levin's 'This Perfect Day' has that as one of the central themes.