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?

    • rbn@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • shojivr@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      18 hours ago

      i am suprised you still motivated enough to keep health and fitness in check despite of how bad things going on right now

      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        I mostly don’t, my job forced me to be fit and lean. I at most hydrate, shower, and shave. I eat whatever garbage I can, and sleep in a dump.

        My father revealed a secret. If he feels it is funny to just have secret income while letting me handle the debt, it’s going to be less funny when I give my 2 weeks in October. Maybe I will survive, or maybe kill myself. Will see.

        But I can’t be sane with this kind of job, need to self-correct.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    101·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml
    39·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • jama211@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      Same with how young people are lazy etc. etc. people never learn from history, it is just crazy.

      • jama211@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        It’s all I seem to see on forums these days, people complain about how the internet has gotten more depressing but don’t stop to realise it’s those same people posting stuff like this that makes it depressing.

  • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • blackbrook@mander.xyz
      36·
      3 days ago

      This is true, but It’s not just that. There is friction built into everything, designed to squeeze as much as possible out of us.

      • Brimstone@lemmy.ml
        13·
        3 days ago

        Yeah companies used to pretend to please customers and now they don’t even pretend.

        The staff are minimum wage and don’t care because it’s a big corporation so you can’t get good service.

        The price is high because the shareholders must be kept happy so you pay over the OSA Odds.

        Corners were cut in several places making the product to please the shareholders too and the workers manufacturing got minimum wage in the factory wherever it was located and have zero interest in making good products as a result.

        Basically capitalism ate itself

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
    2·
    2 days ago

    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

  • edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf
    4·
    2 days ago

    Yeah it’s sucks. I feel like everthing I do or will do need to be optimazed instead of done for sake of doing.

  • Hikermick@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    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

  • lemmylump@lemmy.world
    75·
    3 days ago

    There’s a whole lot of awful going on.

    My dad used to rant about how government should be run like a business, no, no dad, it really, really should not. Businesses do not care about people, businesses don’t want anything but money, your money, and they will twist, turn, manipulate, lobby, and flat out steal or harm people to get it.

    So the next time you call 311, the non emergency police line, or God forbid 911 remember, your call is very important to us, a representative will be with you shortly. If you’d like to take a brief survey after the call just stay on the line. If you’d like to talk to our chat bot Sally just say, hey Sally!