I personally cringe when I hear a friend js having a kid. All I can think of is how bad theyre going to have it. Hell id definitely have been better off being born 20 years earlier, but these new kids are REALLY screwed unless they have super rich parents.

“Nothing new under the sun” I suppose!

  • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    11 months ago

    VERY specific people would have been better off born 20 years ago.

    The vast majority of people would be better off today.

    You can imagine in another 20 years that would be different, but almost everyone is better off today than they were 20 years ago, and they will be even better 20 years from now than today.

    Specific groups may have a harder time in one time period or another, but society at large is getting better at the world scale over the long term. Hope still exists.

    • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      VERY specific people would have been better off born 20 years ago.

      The people pining to repeat the mistakes of the past.

    • uienia@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      But the point is it is not about the situation today, it is about the situation in 20 years, heck just 10 years, of which these people will live into and experience very soon.

      but society at large is getting better at the world scale over the long term.

      That used to be true, it is no longer true. And it is not a natural law that this will happen, it is just something a lot of people who have lived in the golden period of the 1950s to early 2000s inferred, without actually considering a larger swath of history than that.