I really never have believed times improved, and i am almost positive things will only get worse.
30 years ago we had a future to look to, the unshittified internet, great music, affordable land/housing, affordable durable cars, people actually interacted in real life, no social media trash. Now, we have billionaires and LLMs. I don’t see how anyone can possibly think times are better or going to improve.
Yes, everyone will say “civil rights improved” and yes thats maybe the only thing that has changed, however it’s getting taken away every day again so I don’t think you can even use that point anymore.
Look up medical advancements over that time.
True, but the population in industrialized societies have become less and less healthy at the same time. We have Ozempic, but we also have 30% of Americans with prediabetes.
When was the last time you saw someone with Polio? Or someone die of sepsis?
Update: My point about sepsis isn’t that it is gone, But that we’ve gone from hearing about it still being a thing from knowing someone who it was a thing for. As far as polio is concerned I’m 39 years old currently. While polio wasn’t around while I was a child my aunt’s uncle’s parents knew someone who had polio while they were growing up. Friends of the family who were adults knew someone who had polio while they were growing up. That’s mostly what I mean, We went from knowing someone first or second hand who suffered from all kinds of ailments to only hearing about it because there’s a small amount of it.
Polio wasn’t around in the 90s I was there. Sepsis is still a thing. MRSA wasn’t really as common as it is now.
Not trying to lessen your point, but people do be dying from sepsis all of the time still. Granted, we do have way better treatment and protocols, but it’s a fast killer if not caught in time and a lot of different things can cause sepsis
But polio, for sure way better. Never seen anyone with polio before irl
Also stroke treatment. Wayyyy better now than before. We didn’t really have anything except aspirin until the 90’s, and now we’re straight up removing the clots from the brain (when we can). It’s kind of wild how much stroke treatment has improved in 30 years
Give it time. I’ve got ‘Tesla branded iron lungs’ on my US 2026 bingo card.
Give it time. I’ve got ‘Tesla branded iron lungs’ on my US 2026 bingo card.
Well yeah, if you go back to your grandparents’ generation you’re gonna see polio because you’re taking 30s and 40s. My grandfather talked about it too, but my parents’ generation didn’t.