Why has the world gone to shit?
Why has the world gone to shit?
In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product's and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in general.
Why? Did COVID made this happen? How?
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My theory is, it feels like this because not more bad things specifically happen but more of them get revealed and communicated via internet. This could make people more frustrated in return, starting a vicious cycle.
Even without the Internet, being told by older generations how much they were able to achieve with higher income to cost ratio of everything from homes to education is a very loud narrative.
TBF they also had lead in their paint and fuel so it wasn't exactly rosy.
Reminder that lead was banned from gasoline at the pump in 1996. It's why I think so many of us have adhd and all kinds of other neurological disorders nowadays. Boomers had like a 90% excessive exposure rate.
Yep. And bad news just sells better.
And when the news is “meh” and can’t easily be sold, just slap a clickbait headline on top and watch as people pour depressionporn into the comment section of Lemmy, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
My mental state with news greatly improved simply by putting more effort into understanding the news, not just reading the first article.
Everyone shouldn’t stop at the headline and recognize every news source has an incentive for why they publish news. Don’t stop at the first article or perspective that’s found.
I would love to know what time period everyone thinks was this era of perfection because the other decades sucked for a lot of different reasons.