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Do you live on the same planet as me? The world is an incredible place and gets better every day! I look at my children and their experiences growing up and it

Do you live on the same planet as me? The world is an incredible place and gets better every day! I look at my children and their experiences growing up and it’s far better than mine ever were. If I had the choice I’d be born today.

NeoBasilisk 7y ago
People at the beginning of the 20th century were incredibly optimistic, only to be hit with loss of life on an unprecedented level in world wars. Things can improve in some ways and get worse in others. The climate of the planet that our grandchildren inherit will be worse than the one that we enjoy.
save_ferris 7y ago
I respectfully disagree here. The US has seen a sharp decline in children earning more than their parents. 90% of people born in 1940 earned more than their parents, compared to just 50% in 1985, a trend that we simply aren't doing enough to correct[0]. We're on our way to a new gilded age, but perhaps your kids will among the fortunate and not of the "useless class", as Yuval Harari would say. As technology and AI continue to progress, it's going to become harder to educate and train the workforce, and perhaps more importantly, re-train them as human skills continue to fall into obsolescence. I look at my baby nephew and hope that he'll be able to find solid-paying work one day, but that just isn't a given anymore. 0: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/09/504989751/u-s-kids-far-less-likely-to-out-earn-their-parents-as-inequality-grows https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/09/504989751...
- rv-de 7y ago
  what crispy means is that s/he is doing well.
  - noir_lord 7y ago
    Or isn’t American, the US standard of living has dropped but for many people around the world, this is as good as it’s been for them in centuries or longer.
tjr225 7y ago
I tend to be a pretty pessimistic person and I happen to agree with you. Regardless of how hopeless our current position might seem to some, there is an absurd amount of sheer panic and terror that you just happen to be exposed to because you are on the internet. It is a wild gnashing of teeth with little productive thought taking place.
xwdv 7y ago
What experiences are that? Right now I see some fat kids with necks bent at 90 degrees staring mindlessly into a tablet watching some YouTube video of other people playing video games and shouting nonsense. Or babies and toddlers watching whole playlists of AI generated crap trying to get ad revenue. These kids are not getting a good start in life. Wouldn’t be surprised if the end of their lives doesn’t look much different from the beginning.
- danso 7y ago
  If you had to make an off-hand estimate of the total number of teens and children you've witnessed either in YouTube videos or watching YouTube, how does that number compare to the number of teens and children currently alive in this world at this moment?
tzs 7y ago
> Do you live on the same planet as me? The world is an incredible place and gets better every day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJvJaad-LS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJvJaad-LS4

NeoBasilisk 7y ago

People at the beginning of the 20th century were incredibly optimistic, only to be hit with loss of life on an unprecedented level in world wars. Things can improve in some ways and get worse in others. The climate of the planet that our grandchildren inherit will be worse than the one that we enjoy.

save_ferris 7y ago

I respectfully disagree here. The US has seen a sharp decline in children earning more than their parents. 90% of people born in 1940 earned more than their parents, compared to just 50% in 1985, a trend that we simply aren't doing enough to correct[0]. We're on our way to a new gilded age, but perhaps your kids will among the fortunate and not of the "useless class", as Yuval Harari would say. As technology and AI continue to progress, it's going to become harder to educate and train the workforce, and perhaps more importantly, re-train them as human skills continue to fall into obsolescence. I look at my baby nephew and hope that he'll be able to find solid-paying work one day, but that just isn't a given anymore. 0: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/09/504989751/u-s-kids-far-less-likely-to-out-earn-their-parents-as-inequality-grows https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/09/504989751...

rv-de 7y ago
what crispy means is that s/he is doing well.
- noir_lord 7y ago
  Or isn’t American, the US standard of living has dropped but for many people around the world, this is as good as it’s been for them in centuries or longer.

tjr225 7y ago

I tend to be a pretty pessimistic person and I happen to agree with you. Regardless of how hopeless our current position might seem to some, there is an absurd amount of sheer panic and terror that you just happen to be exposed to because you are on the internet. It is a wild gnashing of teeth with little productive thought taking place.

xwdv 7y ago

What experiences are that? Right now I see some fat kids with necks bent at 90 degrees staring mindlessly into a tablet watching some YouTube video of other people playing video games and shouting nonsense. Or babies and toddlers watching whole playlists of AI generated crap trying to get ad revenue. These kids are not getting a good start in life. Wouldn’t be surprised if the end of their lives doesn’t look much different from the beginning.

danso 7y ago
If you had to make an off-hand estimate of the total number of teens and children you've witnessed either in YouTube videos or watching YouTube, how does that number compare to the number of teens and children currently alive in this world at this moment?

tzs 7y ago

> Do you live on the same planet as me? The world is an incredible place and gets better every day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJvJaad-LS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJvJaad-LS4