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Some things are slightly shittier, some things are way shittier, and a lot of things are a lot better. What do you mean specifically?
Politics and the Supreme Court have gotten a lot shittier since 2016 (like a steep decline, rather than the slight decline before).
The wealth gap has been getting shittier since the 70s. Wages haven’t kept up with productivity, while living expenses have only increased.
The housing market is shitty if you’re young or don’t have generational wealth.
Technology and medicine have gotten way better over the last ~100 years.
General consumer safety has gotten way better since the 50s.
Literacy levels and the rate of high school graduation have gotten way better.
Climate change is killing the planet. Deregulation is making climate change worse. Green energy isn’t coming fast enough.
Capitalism and specifically the notion that corporations have a duty to the shareholders has made companies and products shittier, but TVs are really cheap, and computers are really fast.
Robotics has gotten incredibly advanced, as has AI. Whether that’s shitty is pretty much up to opinion. I’d say it’s neutral, and depends on how they’re used.
Speaking of which, war was already horrifying, and now robots have made it vastly more horrifying. I don’t see any way that’s going to stop.
Food has become either really nutrient dense and amazing or really calorie dense and horrible, depending on how much money you have.
Speaking of money, there are a handful of people who have like half of the money. Maybe the guillotine went out of style too soon.
Video games and movies basically just look indistinguishable from reality now. And deep fakes are about to make it a lot easier to create that kind of realism.
For the most part, high speed internet access has slowly been getting better and better, both in speed and availability. Surprisingly, it’s stayed about the same percentage of the median income while doing so.
Streaming services have gotten so shitty it’s unbelievable that they’re still in business. But piracy has been making a comeback, and self hosting pirated content has gotten a lot easier. Physical media is also making a comeback.
Bigotry has gotten worse as a problem, but not worse in terms of percentage of people who are discriminatory. It’s just that the extreme bigots have basically taken over one of the political parties. (I mean, it basically was the party of bigotry before, but they had the decency to be subtle about it.) The younger generation can hopefully fix that problem as they enter voting age.
That’s all I can think of for now.
USdefaultism?
If you're from the US, you're going to talk about the US. You want people from other parts of the world to speak for you? No? Then shut up
when addressing a global community, writing "US supreme court" or "supreme court in US" instead of just "supreme court" is not a lot to expect and neither is that hard. also your argument is shit.
I think they were just speaking (typing..) conversationally rather than "addressing a global community". Obviously a comment on an Internet forum is addressing a global community, but it's not a formal conversation, and as long as you understood the comment I don't get the need to complain about US defaultism here.