I always like to jump in when people talk about how "bad things are nowadays...so much worse than the generations before" and "how fucked up things are today."
60 years ago, 16 year olds served in most militaries; in many cultures, 14 year old girls were expected to be married and making babies; women lived in servitude to men as second class citizens. Would you like to be a black man or woman in the 1950s? You'd get to experience racizm on a whole new level. Life expentancy was 61. People died from simple infections. If you suffered from a back or knee injury, you were crippled till the day you died...
You think we're poor now? Many of us in 1st world countries have NO idea what poor really is. Most of our grandparents, if they were lucky enough to find work, labored 12 hour days, six or seven days a week just to feed our parents, who didn't throw a fit because they couldn't get the latest iphone or go to ivy league colleges...
...I could go on.
We owe a great deal of gratitude to the our parents and/or grandparents. Someday, you'll be there...and your children will whine about how fucked up the world you left them is.
What should we do with our unwanted senior citizens?
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I always like to jump in when people talk about how "bad things are nowadays...so much worse than the generations before" and "how fucked up things are today."
60 years ago, 16 year olds served in most militaries; in many cultures, 14 year old girls were expected to be married and making babies; women lived in servitude to men as second class citizens. Would you like to be a black man or woman in the 1950s? You'd get to experience racizm on a whole new level. Life expentancy was 61. People died from simple infections. If you suffered from a back or knee injury, you were crippled till the day you died...
You think we're poor now? Many of us in 1st world countries have NO idea what poor really is. Most of our grandparents, if they were lucky enough to find work, labored 12 hour days, six or seven days a week just to feed our parents, who didn't throw a fit because they couldn't get the latest iphone or go to ivy league colleges...
...I could go on.
We owe a great deal of gratitude to the our parents and/or grandparents. Someday, you'll be there...and your children will whine about how fucked up the world you left them is.
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tl;dr...but skimmed over enough to know what I said agreed, but wrapped it up in a nutshell.