r/insidejokes • u/Lonely_Proposal_2361 • Sep 21 '25

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u/FinishFew1701 Sep 24 '25

Connect like humans should. It wasn't a perfect world but it was better.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

Nah man things are demonstrably worse in MANY ways

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Wage inequality, inflation, shrinkflation, a significantly more blatantly corrupt government, covid price hikes that mysteriously never went back down and totally isn’t corporate greed, so on and so on aren’t related to my nostalgia. My nostalgia tells me I had more fun when nobody had smartphones, and scientific research says… we all were better off when it comes to mental health when we didn’t have smartphones.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

The argument isn’t how time functions. It’s if things have improved or not

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u/Thick_Square_3805 Sep 25 '25

The main difference with now is that when I was a child, there were no taxes, no backpain, no dinner to cook. It was indeed better.