i am middle aged man, i experienced life since before even computer and smartphone is a thing like today.
back then, i feel that life is much easier, what i mean easier is more simple life, less competition, less stress, fresh environment, and more happiness despite lack of technology.
but right now, everything is just too complicated despite of power of tech, internet, smartphone, and AI helps, i feel that life is much harder right now, what i mean is like competition is everywhere, stressful everyday, crowded city, and i easily depressed these days.
is it just me or everyone else can relate to what happens right now?
Yes it is, we are being squeezed! We have less ways out. I’m far better than I ever was, actually have better health, and fitness. Yet, it is hopeless.
Yes, but not in the imprecise terms you’ll find tossed around in mainstream sources of information.
Key Lemmy-grade terms:
- Surveillance Capitalism —> Technofeudalism
- Personalized pricing
- Bureaucratic Friction & sludge (customer service best practice)
- Administrative Burden (government, business adm & customer service)
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions, RealPage
- Rent-seeking behavior; economic rent
- Whiteness theory
You could post this exact question at literally any time in history and get a whole host of agreeing answers. That’s a basic sanity test you should use to determine that this is a question incorrectly put.
tbh a large part of it probably has to do with you getting older and looking back in the good old days in rose tinted glasses
some parts of the world got better now compared to few decades ago, while others have gotten much worse
I think you are slow on the uptake. It has been this way for a while.
Don’t worry, it gets worse.
Every time your life gets harder, some rich persons life gets easier. Welcome to capitalism.
I’m not even sure if the average rich person’s life is actually getting better by hoarding even more wealth. I tend to believe that being really rich is kind of an illness. Like an addiction where you never feel powerful or rich enough because there’s always someone that’s ahead of you. I feel that capitalism, especially in its current stage, is really bad for everyone.
They broke the social contract. The thing that a polite, cooperative society is built on. So now we see what that means as more everyday folk realize it over time.
Yeah it’s sucks. I feel like everthing I do or will do need to be optimazed instead of done for sake of doing.
It’s definitely getting worse, you’re not imagining it.
Yeah, i mean we make more stuff than ever before per capita and all that, and yet we still have to fight harder and harder to survive. How so? We’ll these fucking billionaires are also richer than ever before. Crassus’ wealth is estimated at like $2B in today’s dollars. Rockefeller is estimated at like $300-400B. Musk is more than double that. It’s very clear what’s happening, the rich use the capitalist surplus as a weapon to extract more wealth from the poor.
I was born in the 60’s and feel ya. Funny that there’s a lot of people who never knew life before internet like we never knew life without television. My take on it is we are bombarded. We see everything that happens all over the planet as soon as it happens. Yet our ability to affect things is still the same. That I feel makes us feel small. Spend less time looking at screens
yeah it’s intentional.
oligarchs are hoarding the resources and getting people to distract themselves by pointing at each other while they stockpile their bunkers.
Thirty-something Norwegian here. I am born into a rich, relatively functioning social democracy with a good welfare state. Buying my own home was a real struggle, even with a good salary. Many of my peers will never own, my younger friends will struggle to ever own, or never.
Unfortunately the welfare state is eroding, prices for everything is increasing heavily, and the private sector is a growing leech on the state.
the real problem is capitalism
May your welfare state never erode enough to remove your Healthcare and turn it into exclusively private!
No, you are not alone. I have the same feeling.
