Bearman637 t1_jee5x12 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:11 AM

Reply to comment by Stinky_the_Grump23 in Goddamn it's really happening by BreadManToast

Take me back to your dads day. Life was simpler.

FlatulistMaster t1_jee6zvr wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:23 AM

Yeah, no.

Ask anybody who is old, and they will tell you how much harder life was in practically every way possible.

Automatic_Paint9319 t1_jee8xla wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:43 AM

Really? Old people tend to talk about how the old days were better, in my experience.

Professional-Age5026 t1_jeeoeje wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:52 PM

I think that’s mostly nostalgia mixed with the fear of growing older in an increasingly changing society. Also, it’s easy to look in the past and only remember the good times when the problems you had then are no longer present in your life. It was simpler in a sense, but also harder in other ways. For certain groups of people is was objectively much worse.

Queue_Bit t1_jeehgof wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:58 PM

Haha yeah I bet they were better for your straight white male older relative

SlowCrates t1_jeeo0m2 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:49 PM

And having something to show for your work. If you lived on a farm, you knew exactly what you're working for and you could see the fruits of your labor. If you had any other job, you still made enough money to afford to take care of your family. Mom's didn't need to work.

Farmers still have the same ethic. But everyone else has to have more jobs because the cost of living has grossly outpaced wages.

Unless you're in a certain tier in society, of course. But the middle class is fucked.

Durabys t1_jeeppuc wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:01 PM

They were better from the perspective of being young because when one is young the bones don't hurt when moving, the mind races ahead and doesn't move like frozen honey, one actually can understand new concepts and not jump in fright as his mind ricochets over anything that came after one's 40th birthday or when one visits the doctor only once per year and only for 10 minutes and do not spend half a year bedridden in a hospital.

They blame the age they live currently live in, instead of blaming circumstances: aging/death and the uncaring cosmos.

Humans have an archetypal Stockholm syndrome for Death and Aging interwoven into every single piece of culture and article of faith we ever created, and anyone not a fanatical materialist does not acknowledge it.

And this trope goes way back to the dawn of the written word, with even Aristotle complaining in his final years how everything sucks balls with the current youth. Yes. Because one gets old.

Automatic_Paint9319 t1_jeetubg wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:29 PM

I was speaking in general terms. Shut the fuck up.

Stinky_the_Grump23 t1_jeg0pmx wrote on March 31, 2023 at 7:10 PM

He misses it. But I think it's more so because there was more human connections back then. You had a big family and you knew everyone in the village. Women were happier because raising kids was done by ~10 adults. Men were working with their teenage sons in the field. I think it's the abundance of genuine human relationships that people miss from the old days. Life was difficult in other ways, it wasn't a good time to get sick or injured.