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Every generation has been saying some form of this about the next generation. If there is "moral decay", you'd expect shoplifting to go up, for instance. The cr

Every generation has been saying some form of this about the next generation. If there is "moral decay", you'd expect shoplifting to go up, for instance. The crime statistics don't seem to support that narrative.

tiahura 3y ago
If you don’t think TikTot and OnlyFans are a new level of degeneracy, you’re not paying attention or in denial.
- kirubakaran 3y ago
  I hear you. I just want to point out that the same thing was said about video games in the last generation, and about comic books a couple of generations before that.
- Jochim 3y ago
  They're only a new level of degeneracy if you pretend that sex workers aren't physically displaying themselves in windows or selling themselves on the street.
- Ekaros 3y ago
  Or are they just more widely disseminated? Could it be that previous generations were as degenerated, but it never spread any further so in the end no one heard for all the stupid things that teens and kids did?
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  Lol, gotta love the moral panic on literally the oldest profession. Tiktok isn't degeneracy, it's exactly what you expect to come out of a capitalism infused ad-based economy. It's a hostile market for your attention, what did you expect? Things that are entirely fueled by economic incentives and interests are not moral decay. The US has been like this since the very beginning. We literally promised the south not to ban slavery for a long time because otherwise they would not have voted to join the Union because it would hurt their economy to not own black human beings
  - throwawaymaths 3y ago
    This is an oversimplification. The north also had an economy that made quite a bit of bank off of southern slave labor: mills in New England would not make sense if not for slave hands in the south.
nodesocket 3y ago
Umm shoplifting and crime is up. When is the last time you’ve been to San Francisco? Just like we didn’t have a border crisis when liberals were all anti-ice and anti border-wall. Naive, and fog of their own political fantasy ideologies.

tiahura 3y ago

If you don’t think TikTot and OnlyFans are a new level of degeneracy, you’re not paying attention or in denial.

kirubakaran 3y ago
I hear you. I just want to point out that the same thing was said about video games in the last generation, and about comic books a couple of generations before that.
Jochim 3y ago
They're only a new level of degeneracy if you pretend that sex workers aren't physically displaying themselves in windows or selling themselves on the street.
Ekaros 3y ago
Or are they just more widely disseminated? Could it be that previous generations were as degenerated, but it never spread any further so in the end no one heard for all the stupid things that teens and kids did?
mrguyorama 3y ago
Lol, gotta love the moral panic on literally the oldest profession. Tiktok isn't degeneracy, it's exactly what you expect to come out of a capitalism infused ad-based economy. It's a hostile market for your attention, what did you expect? Things that are entirely fueled by economic incentives and interests are not moral decay. The US has been like this since the very beginning. We literally promised the south not to ban slavery for a long time because otherwise they would not have voted to join the Union because it would hurt their economy to not own black human beings
- throwawaymaths 3y ago
  This is an oversimplification. The north also had an economy that made quite a bit of bank off of southern slave labor: mills in New England would not make sense if not for slave hands in the south.

nodesocket 3y ago

Umm shoplifting and crime is up. When is the last time you’ve been to San Francisco? Just like we didn’t have a border crisis when liberals were all anti-ice and anti border-wall. Naive, and fog of their own political fantasy ideologies.