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jhirn t1_j226fkl wrote

Reply to comment by Moos_Mumsy in What do you imagine the world will look like in 2050? by psychosil444

What the hell happened that was so bad in the last 20 years?

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Moos_Mumsy t1_j228zbk wrote

Smart Phones

Facebook/Twitter/Tik-Tok & Social Media in general

Donald J. Trump and the global rise of Fascism

SARS-CoV-2 (aka Covid-19)

Increasing homelessness, poverty, loneliness

I could probably think of more....

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jhirn t1_j229ruf wrote

Really? Smart Phones make you want to not live anymore? Social Media is easily avoidable, at least something you can make not all consuming.

Trump, ok I’ll give you that one lol.

Covid sucked but it’s a marvel that we created a vaccine so quickly and in the grand scheme of things it could have been a lot worse.

Homelessness and poverty aren’t great but population growth is slowing. It’s out of your control so it shouldn’t get you so down.

I think there’s a lot to be grateful for if you focus on that instead. Hope you can find a way to be happy friend.

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Apprehensive_Ring_46 t1_j22kyuu wrote

20 years ago, when you got on a bus or in a cafe, everyone wasn't glued to their phones and laptops. The end of informal social interaction.

The rise in political extremism is unfathomable in a modern society, but here we are. Where will we go with this?

Don't worry about Covid, what about the next one?

Tens of thousands living on the streets in America? And no end in sight of that? And in 30 years?

I was born in '56.

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jhirn t1_j22m8n8 wrote

It probably looks that way but people don’t want to talk to you on a bus or in a cafe. Kids are doing just fine, despite how you think they should be behaving. When you talk about political extremism, be reminded 27,000 people were killed, per day, for 4 years during WW2. The Afghan war went on for 20 years and estimated casualties are under 200k. Any loss of life is awful and war sucks, but let’s not act like this “rise in facism” is resulting in atrocities of the same scale.

Just because the media makes its money fear mongering doesn’t mean we’re worse off by any means.

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Rabid_Sloth_ t1_j2309i2 wrote

I'm on your side here but I'd just give up here lol. People don't realize that we live in the most civilized time in human history.

I mean, it's been less than a hundred years since being able to have a flushed toilet was common...

People just like to complain.

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jhirn t1_j230cso wrote

Ha. Thx don’t worry about me tho. I’m certainly not worried about these fools.

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Rabid_Sloth_ t1_j230mp2 wrote

Reddit and the internet in general truly is something else. A few weeks back this dude tried arguing with me about gun control EVEN THOUGH HE AGREED WITH WHAT I WAS SAYING. He just didn't like the point I used. Smh. Why I rarely get into it with people on here.

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Gtuf1 t1_j253id0 wrote

It’s all a very negative outlook on the world. People born in the 1920s May have thought the same about the sexual Revolution or the 60s that people born in the early 50s brought about. Was it really so terrible in the context of the greater history?

I doubt it.

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tomwesley4644 t1_j226xgu wrote

A whole lot. But also remember, they were born in ‘58. This is a shared opinion by a lot this age.

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[deleted] t1_j22chiy wrote

What was it exactly that prompted you to immediately digress into a racial themed response like that and call out the poster? Was it the year they mentioned?

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jhirn t1_j22da90 wrote

most people this glum are people who think everything is falling to shit and wish things were the same as “back in the day” and lean conservative, so that’s why. I’m not young either. I get it some libs are doom and gloom but only since trump, so if he would have said the past 5 years were hell I might have poked in the other way.

I just hate this idea that the world is falling apart when it is definitively better than it ever has been and continues to vastly improve.

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arrogancygames t1_j22djlp wrote

It's kind of suspect.

In 58, women and black people were not allowed to work, information was very regionally controlled, and it was really, really hard for people to educate themselves on anything. You had libraries, but without college pushing you, you had no idea what to read.

The side effect of this is that average white males basically were able to have an average existence and still cheaply own houses, cars, etc. and get regular sex. Women couldn't get decent jobs, so they were forced to marry and stick with dudes they didn't necessarily want for other comfort. Latin and black people couldn't get the best jobs so there was no competition, etc. The "nuclear family" is basically based on this lack of competition and choice. That's what "Make America Great Again" is all about.

Time trav me back to 1958 and I'll end up lynched on a tree because I get dragged behind a truck for getting tired of someone calling me the N word where I couldn't live a basic existence or even get property and it wears on me too much where I get myself killed.

The 50s is a ridiculously ludicrous time for anyone to say, and when they do, they're hugely suspect.

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