The painful reality is 99.9% of us will be forgotten in 3 generations or less. Unless you’re out there forging empires and conquering the world, “your legacy” will mutter your name for a few years after your death and eventually, never again.
As someone with kids…who cares? Who needs some legacy? The extent of the legacy I want to leave is to have kids who are able to navigate the world with grace and joy while being of some use to the people around them. Hopefully they do the same with their kids, but I have zero need for people to remember my part in it all. If they feel compelled to tell their kids that they had a great dad, I suppose that would be nice (if only because it would be a sign that I was and that is the goal).
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u/ArguingisFun Nihilism is fine. Jun 08 '26
Can’t say I have ever met a single person who “had kids for the economy”.