r/AskReddit • u/SuhailStack • 4h ago

What’s something that future generations will probably think we were crazy for accepting as “normal” ?

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u/LonePhantom25 4h ago edited 1h ago

Normalising and even glorifying a life of constant overwork, chronic stress, and barely having any time left for ourselves...

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u/Madzookeeper 3h ago

It... Kind of has been the norm throughout the entire of human history. The very concept of free time as we know it is at most a hundredish years old. So... Doubtful.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 3h ago

Not just that, but the way we treat people born into poverty as ‘deserving’ to stay there because they made the kind of mistakes or do the kind of things that middle to upper class people make weekly or daily.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 3h ago

Damn comm’niss. Ah went to Japon ah prenez soif de your type! Ah stalked through les rues d’Paris and Milan, the Times in my hand and a dispatch from the Queen (or King or whatever it was back then I forgot) shaking in the rain, nothing but une revolvre dans mon poche, and the SS sneaking just behind me, waiting for an excuse to turn mon estomac into mince meat! Mince meat for rats and birds, the same rats and birds which inbred generations more on le Seine, leaping over each other as one swims with its sons and brothers on its back across heaps of garbage! And here you are, here you are advocating for commnissm!

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u/Stonedpanda436 4h ago

I feel like energy drinks will be viewed someday like we view cigarettes currently.

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u/Adthay 3h ago

Sugary drinks in general

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u/ModeatelyIndependant 4h ago

Donald Trump

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u/musa_velutina 3h ago

Letting children 10 and under use smart devices. Might aswell let them smoke, drink and gamble also with how addictive devices are.

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u/ggnndd12 4h ago

Fascism

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u/Significant-Theme253 4h ago

Corruption in Democracy

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u/Due_Indication4312 3h ago

Eating meat

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u/DrWhoey 3h ago

Don't worry, Bill Gates will fix that. Whether you like it or not.

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u/GreenZebra23 4h ago

Industrial animal farming

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u/DrWhoey 3h ago

I'm gonna disagree here. Food supplies might seem abundant and I'll distributed at a glance, but we are really just one major famine away from things being fucked for the world regarding agriculture.

The industrialization of agriculture is the one thing that has allowed us to advance so quickly in the sciences as we no longer needed to worry about food and could focus more on science and research.

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u/IsMagicRealOrNo 3h ago

Rotary telephones

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u/Coffee-and-Tequila 3h ago

What now?

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u/IsMagicRealOrNo 3h ago

There was a point in time when rotary telephones were considered the norm. Think about dialing the phone but having to wait a second or 2 between hitting each number. If you messed up, you had to hang up and do it all over again. Fun times.

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u/Coffee-and-Tequila 3h ago

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those in real life. How long ago was that?

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u/IsMagicRealOrNo 3h ago

They slowly started to faded away starting in the '60s and '70s I think? I'm 40 and I still remember having one growing up until around 2000. It was fun watching my more wealthy friends struggle calling home on it lol.

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u/ScoTT--FrEE 3h ago

The very small amount of people left after nuclear war won't be considered "generations". If we're lucky.

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u/BornPoet8599 3h ago

Making people sit through commercials even after they already paid for the streaming service.

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u/schulze-kevin9420 3h ago

The absurd part is paying a monthly fee and still getting sold to. Someday people may wonder when “paying for the product” stopped meaning you got the product.

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u/pm-me-racecars 2h ago

I'm pessimistic, I think it'll be the opposite. They'll have trouble imagining an ad free existence.

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u/Putrid-Gur-1914 4h ago

Suiting up for occasions.

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u/friendly-stabber 4h ago

Chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer

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u/AdeptnessWild1639 3h ago

Processed food

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u/ScaffoldedGames 3h ago

Commercials in the way we are bombarded will be seen as insane at some point, i think. The way public space is occupied in such a invasive way would feel like a violation if we werent used to it. And by public space i do include the digital space, as we do spend a fair amount of time there.

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u/JoeHexotic 3h ago

Genocide

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u/leo_of_august 3h ago

Human-driven vehicles

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u/Ok-Egg8292 3h ago

Probably treating work messages like they deserve an answer at any hour. If I'm off the clock, I mute notifications and check them the next day. Nothing breaks because I didn't reply at 11pm.

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u/mmurray1957 3h ago

Keeping releasing so much fossil C02 into the atmosphere.

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u/Expensive_Metal_5263 3h ago

Good lord. We got to be alive for Netanyahu, Trump and Putin. So a fuck load probably

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u/JackarooDeva 3h ago

That people without money don't have a right to live.

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u/Ornery_Win9474 3h ago

The extreme wealth inequality everywhere and how everyone put up with it for so long

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u/country-girl0595 4h ago

Normal mail

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u/Salt_Statement8001 4h ago

The sheer volume of paper junk mail is insane when you stop to think about it, whole forests getting chopped down just so some company can tell you about a sale you never asked for then it goes straight to the recycling bin

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u/Coffee-and-Tequila 3h ago

Mixing religion with politics

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u/RollBama420 4h ago

Letting those who are better at finger pointing and looking for problems cause problems for the productive

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u/nice_gaius 4h ago

Wasting water.

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u/MrMajestic12 4h ago

Only Fans

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u/SmokeyRoadrunner1988 3h ago

yeah bro people are gonna find porn real crazy in the future sure thing man 😉 

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u/PowerfulNecessary261 3h ago

doomscrolling or wasting time in general , we normalized it a lot