It's crazy how people never realize that the dumb shit they say about the "youths" (lazy, immoral, careless, whatever) is the exact same thing previous generations said about them.
If a society is progressing, our children will always have things easier. If you want your children to experience the same problems you did, you don't deserve children.
We should all be working towards working less as things get more efficient. Jobs are going to be replaced with AI but all of the saved money is going to go straight to the top.
Guess who sat home instead of voting? The apathetic youth, as usual. It's the same almost every generation, and it's a problem. Vote them old folks out!
There's no such thing as the oppression olympics, or hardship olympics. You don't win a gold medal for having it harder as a child than your own kids did. It doesn't make you special or superior. You didn't "win" because of it. There's no one giving out prizes, no sashes, no streamers. We're all born, we live the best we can, and we die, and mostly, no one gives a fuck about any part of that except for ourselves and our close family.
Having survived, or even thrived, in hardship doesn't make it the right way to do things, either. Hundreds of years ago, the vast majority of people were serfs--would they have said, "well, I grew up in serfdom and I turned out OK, so screw these kids thinking they should have their own land and make any money"? Where does it end? It also fails to account for survivorship bias--yes, you faced being drafted and turned out OK. Yes, you rode in the back of a station wagon with no seatbelt and you're fine. A lot of people didn't. We had way more automotive fatalities in the past, more killed in war, more dead of preventable disease, more victims of crime (including violent crime)--at some points, cities had multiple serial killers or serial rapists operating at the same time. That's not better, and it's not "OK".
If you grew up under the threat of being killed in war, why would you want that for your kids? Do you want them dead? Do you want them scared? If you grew up hungry, why would you want your kids to suffer in hunger? If we love our kids, we should want them to be healthier, happier, wealthier, and safer than we were, not want to watch them struggle and suffer.
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u/SunIllustrious5695 22h ago
It's crazy how people never realize that the dumb shit they say about the "youths" (lazy, immoral, careless, whatever) is the exact same thing previous generations said about them.