“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly ninety million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn’t the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.”
The boomers had it better. The end.
In 1960, minimum wage in the US was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average home was $11,000.
in 1960 the boomers were sucking their thumbs and playing with crayons
If they were born during the baby boom of WWII soldiers returning home then they would be 14 or 15. Probably about 3 years from getting married and buying their house.
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l don’t wanna sound like an old man but I’m gonna say it, old times were better because you were young and free.
Depending on the context they might be right. Like, the internet of the mid and late 2010’s was pretty much better than today and we’ll never go back to that peak.
It’s funny you say that, cause many people my age feel the same way about the internet of the early-mid 2000s, the wild west days of the internet. We always remember the things of our youth more fondly.
Youth? I’m in my 40’s. The internet being on a downward quality trend isn’t to do with age of the perceiver.
We’re on Lemmy. 90% of this place’s users are hee because of objectively factual enshitification of one service. I can list many, many more.
Eh, certainly a lot of big sites are shitting their pants right now, but I don’t think the internet as a whole is doing that bad. It’s really the consolidation of internet communities in the 2010s that lead us to this point, now we’ve learned a hard lesson. Even as things fall apart, FOSS thrives in their wake. We’re in a pretty sucky transition period, but I think the internet will be fine in the long run.
I Redd what you had to say, and I can Digg it.
ah yes the halcyon years of “the late 2010s”, wherein, in 2019, nothing bad happened.
Stop confusing future archeologist with memes of things that didn’t happen(talking about that first square)
You don’t use a Nintendo Poweglove with your VR goggles?
I DO NOT WANT THE WORLD TO BECOME LIKE THE FIRST ONE ITS ALREADY BAD ENOUGH
First panel: OK Zoomer
people reluctant of change out of their comfort generation timeline
