You forgot -
- Housing crisis which makes house impossible to afford.
- Rent crisis which makes event renting harder and gives owners freehand to increase rent however they like
- Global job scarcity
- Stagnation of income in sight of exploding inflation
True, but it has to be readable.
- Forest fires that turn the sky red
- Record rainfall and flooding
- Once in a millennium heatwaves
It depends on where you live of course
- being called millenials
Y2k wasnt a thing, too young to be in the towers, didnt have a job in 08 (most of them) probably wont be a ww3… drama queens…
Don’t forget about the mass extinctions
True…
Let’s hope we aren’t also going to be on that list.
I visited the state I grew up in recently and had to drive a couple hours to visit someone down a highway I used to drive all the time in my teens. There used to be so many bugs that I’d have to stop and use the washers at the gas station at least once… this time there were maybe 2 or 3.
I was like oh. oh no.
I tell people all the time that the bugs are all gone. It is terrifying! Younger generations will never experience those swarms. It is so sad.
And heat waves from climate change.
In the US**. Mostly.
All over the globe, I am German and the right wing gets stronger, I hate it…
Everywhere is getting really fascist, really quickly. It’s terrifying. At least last time, other countries stopped Germany. Who would stop an afd/cdu coalition now? Not the Trump, le pen, xi, Putin, modi, or literally any British option. We’re going to have to bet on the finns.
We’re going to have to bet on the finns.
Please don’t, for the sake of us all, it’s the same over here unfortunately.
All of the shit is everywhere already. Fighting this shit is going to have to be a worldwide effort the same way bigots, fascists, nazis etc. are uniting worldwide. There is no place on Earth immune to idiocy, because most people are just idiots and/or fucking suck.
Perkele.
Could definitely chuck Global Pandemic on the list too.
If you’re American you’d probably also include the war(s) in the Middle East, nationwide racial justice protests, multiple impeachments, the arrest & indictment of a former president, the failed coup on Jan 6th, and a lot more.
It’s been a busy 2-3 decades…
Pretty sure “a plague” is referencing covid here, so it’s already on the list
Expecting an American from butt fuck Illinois to know what Plague means? Let him be, he’s only got 500mbs of Internet per month
I grew up in a rural shit hole where we got 50 kbps. In 2010. That’s K like “kill myself” not M as in “Moneybags”. Have you ever downloaded 4 gigabyte video games at 50 kbps so you can play with your friends? These are real problems.
Has there actually been a better century in terms of comfort and stability for most people
Historically there would be many because the poor countries have the most people
Take China for example. A middle class person in China today lives like an upper class person compared to the 1700s. A poor person on average anywhere is doing way better than ever before…
Yes spending most of the day in a factory or a mine and rarely seeing sunlight is definitively like living as a blacksmith 300 years ago (I said blacksmith because it’s under upper class and I assume by middle class you mean office worker not middle income)
Being a farmer is much easier as well now because machines make the work 100x easier and you only have to do 1000x the amount.
Africa has certainly never had stability and the Inca/Mayans/Aztecs certainly had it worse than the rural folk of Central and South America
Remember all those old paintings of kids going through garbage to find things to sell? That’s certainly not a modern phenomenon
What about the people in winter climates that for a large portion couldn’t work in the winter? Yes they still did stuff but it wasn’t 40 hour weeks
I don’t think I get your argument. Poor countries are much more prone to war, unrest, famines and all sorts of things contrary to “comfort and stability”.
I am saying that they are less stable now than before colonization
Yeah, but that is the exact opposite of what you were saying in your OP.
Did you get me confused?
My argument is that this isn’t the best century for humans
I don’t think though… but quantity improved.
On average, whether over a large enough population or a long enough time, people are living better and better.
Literacy rates are improving and information is becoming easier to access.
Medicine is always innovating. Medical care is becoming more and more available. Many deadly diseases are either wiped out or easily treatable.
For much (most?) of the world, nutritious food, clean water, and sanitation is available (if not always affordable).
Sure, some where in the world there is natural disaster, but we are constantly getting better at predicting them and buildings are being built to better handle them. There is still violence and unjust governments, but both are trending down.
That is not to say that we cannot do much much better nor that there are not easy things that we could do to improve. It is likely that your current situation has gotten worse in some way or another. But we are averaging ten steps forward for every step back (no matter how big and unnecessary that step back is).
Ukrainian 90s babies living through the collapse of the USSR, decade of banditry and poverty, 2 revolutions, a plague, and the largest war since WW2 before they hit 30:
Yup, you guys where hit worst than most. Not only as magnitude order but also as time span.
Well … I think the Middle East wants to enter the chat. Multiple wars, multiple revolutions, and multiple plagues.
You’re right.
Don’t forget you have Y2K38 coming up. Whereas Y2K was all about mainframes and old databases, Y2K38 will be older embedded equipment. Less impact if it goes bad, but there’s no way to predict everything it’ll affect.
Mainframes and old databases? It was 98/99 not 88/89. I spent all my time updating Netscape navigator, Windows and Java in my IT job for a fortune 500. I’m sure someone was still running crazy old stuff, someone always is, but it was solidly the age of the internet by then. I had a cable modem by that time.
With regards to old databases, they were used by tons of small businesses and industrial users. If a flour mill had a system written to track bulk shipments in 1992, you can bet it would still be in use in 2000. Fortune 500 companies run mostly off the shelf software and keep it up to date, but the SCADA system that runs a factory is a different story.
As far as mainframes go, the financial and manufacturing industries still use them. Quite a bit of the infrastructure we rely on even today is written in COBOL. It’s easy to miss because the mainframe community is almost completely separate from the rest of the IT world, but it’s there and even with IBM’s push to get everyone on Java it won’t be going away any time soon.
Another “poor me, the snowflake” meme.
More like 80s babies, since we were actually old enough to remember those first two things
The 80’s were from 1985 to 1995.
Nope.
1981 to 1989
Closer.
I was born in 94 and I remember 9/11. I remember the turn of the millennium cause I remember finding it hard to write 2000 instead of 199X in my school book, but I don’t think I was aware of Y2K
Yeah and add on a nuclear disaster for us europeans as well please.
I was born in 1992 and remember it all.
But you’re over 30
Shut up
I can imagine the hysteria you were going through as an 7/8 year old experiencing Y2K. Glad you made it through
Born in '83, I don’t remember anyone bothering with it too much. It was all over the news and such, sure, but I don’t recall anyone I knew caring about it all that much; both adults and children.
I’m 40 now and living through all this crap has definitely taken a toll. I didn’t get into a house until last year, so I missed the cheap housing, and I’ve been significantly affected by most of this. I still live paycheque to paycheque, and I have no significant savings or retirement money put away.
I have had a pretty strange experience in life though, even compared to my peers. I dropped out of HS, then after about 5 years got my highschool equivalency, went to college, did two different two year programs in about 5 years (there’s a story there too, it should have been 3-3.5 years, ended up closer to 5), got into some disappointing jobs, unemployed for a while a couple of times for nontrivial amounts of time each time… it’s been a ride. I’m fairly stable now, though my financial situation is fairly fragile. With the new recession/inflation, it’s causing some stress and worry.
Life. Fucking life.
If 9/11 made you hysteric, you have bigger problems. Downvote if you’re a big american baby.
I mean, ww3 just isn’t gonna happen. Well, there’s a tiny possibility it might, but only in the sense that NATO fucks Russia. All it’d really take is air superiority. And NATO could achieve that in an extremely quick time. Might take a week, and it might take a day. But after that, there’s not much you can do. Russia launches 500 nukes? (That’s a very generous number). Either Russia receives back double that, or they get blown up before they can cause any “real” damage. That’s not saying they won’t cause damage, but chamces are, theres ways to intercept it.
I’m not a big fan of American governments. But I do have to admit, whilst they’re actual army personal may not be as good as some lather countries, there’s no way they’re not spending billions and developing extreme tools. I mean, they lost their own stealth fighter.
The UK SAS are regarded as THE best in the world, with lots of other special forces being based on them. Poland is buying US tech. Germany is on the right side.
I don’t know anything about militaries, but from my extremely basic understanding of the words armies, the US could supply air superiority. The British could probably infiltrate extremely well, as well as a ton of other EU special forces. I mean, one of them accidentally avoided the rest of their military for, I can’t remember hoe ling, and it probably wouldn’t take all that long to find where Putin is hiding.
On a closing note, it was supposed to be a 3 day operation. It’s been over a year, and Russia still aren’t sending their best aircraft. And the rest of the world aren’t even handing over their very best tech.
If Putin tried starting WW3, it’s a lose-lose. Either mutually assure destruction, or his people revolt and NATO slides in.
Am much less worried about putin, then india vs pakistan, when the water from himalaya dries up. Both have nukes. Billions of people that are seeeing their children dying from thirst, will probably go to extreme lengths.
I fear that survival instinct more then putin and chinas imperialistic greed.
Greed, while ugly, is more calculating, and do consider consequences.yeah but that’s pretty far away from most white people so it doesn’t count /s
Correction, 3 received
I think the worry is a WW3 with China
Imagine being alive for the past two or three decades and then saying something like, “I mean, ww3 just isn’t going to happen”.
You should know by this point that anything can fucking happen.
I recall memes similar to this from ten years ago. That’s a throwback.
I mean, ever since the second world war. We have always been at risk of a third.
Some say we won’t be rid of the threat of World War III until after the next world war.
Mind blown
So profound
“May you live in interesting times.”
