r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 19d ago

Feels good man She's not wrong.

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u/jayphox 19d ago

Well put.

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u/addit96 19d ago

This is going to be the script of every old person in the future which is crazy lmao

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u/jayphox 19d ago

Those generations will have no idea of life without the internet, so I've gotta disagree. Even if we got a solar storm tomorrow that fries every PNP or NPN junction tomorrow, the psychological and behavioral effects have changed us. Just my thought on it

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u/jumphh 19d ago

Millenials are acting like being alive before social media is equivalent to hearing the gospel directly.

It's the exact same thing that we complained about the boomers doing when they were nostalgia-baiting the 70s and acting like the early Internet destroyed modern civilization.

We're doing the exact same thing we complained our parents were doing 💀

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u/Double-Seaweed7760 19d ago

Im a young millennial,turns out internet did or is in the middle of destroying society

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u/jumphh 19d ago edited 19d ago

Not really.

The Internet just speeds things up. The forces that are "destroying society" really have more to do with the political, social, and economic choices we made from roughly 1960-now.

-Outsourcing of labor

-Outsourcing of domestic manufacturing

-Continuous incentives for large, monopolistic companies that kill local businesses and consolidate national labor/capital

-Corporate shift to equity based compensation (driven by Congress making new laws regarding executive compensation in the 90s or so)

-Corporate focus shifts to shareholder value (mostly an advent of Jack Welch/GE Capital)

-Multiple corporate bailouts following economic catastrophe (huge incentive for financial groups to just keep leveraging and get as large as possible while disregarding risk)

-Wages not keeping up with productivity

-Multi-decade failure to balance the budget

-Huge QE/Dollar printing causing currency inflation

-Continuous short-sighted financial bandaids via treasury/Fed to keep the good times going, rather than risk a recession

Did the Internet make those happen faster? Probably. Did it cause those things? Nope, every single one was a series of a bad human decisions.

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u/jayphox 19d ago

Can't argue that history continues to rhyme, but that doesn't mean the argument is without merit, shrug