When things get tough, when you’re backed into a corner, it can feel like the whole world is full of darkness and nothing more. It’s then easy to think that practically every aspect of life on Planet Earth has been going downhill since the Good Old Days (whenever that mythical era might have been).
The truth is that certain aspects of life have definitely improved over the decades; others, in turn, have certainly gone the other way, quality-wise. Internet users from around the globe pitched in with their opinions about the things that have consistently been getting worse over time, sharing their thoughts on r/AskReddit. They touched on topics from social media to housing costs and beyond.
Scroll down to read their thoughts, and let us know which of these posts you agree with, dear Pandas. What do you personally think has gone completely downhill in recent years and why? Tell us all about it in the comments.
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#1
Science denial is out of control
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#2
Life and perception. As i get older and learn more I consistently yearn for “the old days” but I’m not actually yearning for old days…I’m merely wishing I could go back to when I didn’t know anything about how life and the world actually operates. Youthful perception is usually more optimistic.
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#3
Cost of living
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#4
YouTube. 2 unskippable ads with every freaking video. And more throughout. I’m honestly surprised if there’s only 2.
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#5
Google. It’s so hard to search for anything, even if you use quotes and boolean operators you get garbage results almost entirely unrelated to your query. It used to be much better years ago.
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#6
Movie selection on Netflix.
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#7
I work in healthcare and I would have to say the hospitals themselves have gotten progressively worse. It’s at the point that I would not want to get sick and have them take care of me. Hospitals are purely trying to make as much profit as possible and it is at the expense of the hospital staff and patients. It’s honestly horrifying.
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#8
Cinema in general. One crappy remake of a 1980s movie after another, and live action remakes of stuff that was popular in the 80s and 90s. Cinema peaked back then, and now it’s just ripoffs and awful remakes as far as the eye can see.
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#9
The internet.
I remember when it started. Bulletin boards were the thing. Inspired, interested people from around the world talking.
And then websites. Any fool could throw up some HTML and have a little website talking about their cat and their favourite video games.
Java chat rooms. Flash games. Game forums. 4chan. It was the wild west. You could post anything, anonymously, view anything, freely.
It’s all gone now. And it’s getting worse and worse.
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#10
Drivers. Why the hell don’t you people use your turn signals?
#11
Instagram. We don’t need reels. We don’t need Mark to ruin it like facebook.
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#12
Housing costs.
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#13
America/western world humanity.
Despite people being annoyed at the ‘woke’, actual value of the individual and respect to an enjoyable and ‘free’ life is deteriorating in western societies.
I mean look at ‘quiet quitting’, people are being told they’re soft and not hard working for wanting fair hours and work loads.
Americans need to work for 75-80% of their waking life to afford to survive.
Other countries it’s still around 35-45%.
That’s unreasonable.
We should be finding ways for everyone to have more leisure time and less ‘productive’ time in our finite lives.
Here in Australia it’s been announced that the government is letting retired aged people work more hours, to make ends meet. Not raise the pension- ‘let’ them work more- when they’re retired- from working…
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#14
The quality of furniture.
Unless you want to spend $10k, you cant really get something that will last 50+ years.
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#15
The cost of living in the UK.
I’m still working the same job I was five years ago, and my partner has actually had multiple promotions so our incoming money has, if anything, gotten better. But whereas five years ago we were able to pay all the bills, get what the kids needed and still have a little spare for luxuries like meals out / family trips, now we are failing to make ends meet even with multiple cut – backs. We’ve cancelled everything non-necessary, the kids can’t even go to their dance classes or after school stuff anymore, we have got my 74 year old grandma helping out with childcare and we’re raiding the discount section of food stores for bargain meals most weeks. It’s not great being here at the moment.
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#16
Vehicles. I’m an auto body tech, and seeing the difference in build quality between newer and older vehicles is astounding. My daily drive is 35 years old, when something goes wrong with it, I know i can fix it because it’s built to be repaired. When a friend calls and asks if i can take a look at their newer vehicle, everytime i’m working on it I feel like it was just meant to be used until it breaks and then thrown away. It makes me very sad.
#17
Advertisements. Not only the quality of advertisements, but frequency has skyrocketed. For example, when you watch a basketball game, these jerks put an ad in between free throw attempts. Everything is presented by Company XYZ, everything has some sort of advertisement connected to it, and it is infuriating.
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#18
Perception of people as you grow up. When you’re a little kid, you think adults can fix things. Then, as you get older, you realize that they don’t fix things very well.
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#19
The coverage of polarized political views in the news in order to draw in readers.
#20
Pretty much all appliances and devices. TV’s, stereos, washing machines, blenders, microwave ovens, etc, used to be really sturdy and last forever. Now they look bad, feel flimsy and crappy, are easily broken, and most of the times aren’t as good as the older stuff. My pet peeve is music devices. Used to be you could buy a portable boombox or small stereo and it would sound pretty good and last for years and years. Not anymore unless you spend money to buy a higher-end model.
#21
Airlines
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#22
Health insurance
#23
Restaurants. The really nice ones have maintained a high standard, but the middle of the road places have really tanked in terms of service and food quality while jacking up prices. It’s just not worth it to eat out unless you’re either just going for cheap bar food or going out somewhere really nice.
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#24
Mainstream network television programing
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#25
Air quality
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#26
People.
A whole series of factors have led to the average person being less morally principled.
The best example of this is on dating. Rather than pairing up with someone and putting your eggs in that basket, people have started playing a numbers game. 70 years ago “dating” meant that you were in the early stages of seeing ONE person. The whole idea of being exclusive was a given. It’s why people trusted each other more and relationships lasted longer. It’s because the question they were asking wasn’t “how does this person compare to the three other people I’m dating?” but rather just a simple “do I like this person?”.
I don’t say this as a complaint, but rather an observation: this dynamic makes people unhappy, used and disconnected, regardless as to whether they’re the dumped or the dumper. It’s not that relationships fail, is that people don’t have the courage to commit to one at a time. They fear being alone so much, they they never allow themselves to truely be at risk of being fully alone; so they keep backups. Because they never risk this, they’re never fully with someone, at least in the early stages. They also know because they have a backup, the other person probably does to. So the whole idea of growing together is rivalled by whether they can just jump ship to the backup. This is an awfully gamified way of forming relationships.
I could talk about work practices, friendships being temporary, political opinions dividing people and people promoting fake representations of themselves, but the bottom line is that most people seem to have become a lot more cowardly than they used to be. The dating culture is a prime example of this cowardice.
#27
Online dating
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#28
Main star wars movies
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