u/Repulsive_Truck_9725

Like I personally believe that any form of bringing more humans into the world is selfish, but surrogacy is a different level of strange to me. I understand not wanting to give birth, but if one truly wanted to raise, nurture, and love a child, why not adopt someone who is already present and here? But no. The need to pass on one's special, amazing, and spectacular DNA remains strong, so why not have another woman carry and have your baby for you only for her to never see it again after that? It's also weird how surrogacy seems to be a common thing among celebrities and rich people.

I was talking with my grandma the other day, and of course she asked when I was going to have kids for the millionth time after I told her I was never going to have any since I was a kid. I'm in my early 20s now. Then, my mom butted in and said out of nowhere: "Don't you think it's selfish to end our legacy after all that hard work?", and proceeded to bring up my great-grandmother that I hardly knew. She died of breast cancer when I was like 3. Like what legacy, exactly? We literally live in the Midwest, work from paycheck to paycheck, and have a genetic history of depression, diabetes, and cancer lmao. We aren't 1500s royalty. It's so self-absorbed and primitive.

Like I don't understand why some people are okay with spending most of their lives slaving away almost every day to the rich to be rewarded nothing at all except for green paper and a few days off.

I have probably applied to almost every single place in my town, even for the simplest of entry-level jobs where you get paid dust, and not once have I gotten a call back after an interview. Even just getting an interview is rare anymore. I don't know if there's something wrong on my part, which I don't think there is, or if the job system really is that screwed, but I've seen so many people who have been experiencing the same thing, and it's actually ridiculous.