Privileges we have today that people 30 years ago didn't
My grandfather and i have a generation gap of about 30 years and tbh the way he tells me about the world back then and now i feel so privileged.
My grandpa was telling me the other day how the only source of information and news was a news paper and radio station .
How his room had a big Radio and a casette player for entertainment and movies were seen in the Cinema theaters.
He tells me how he used to go to school on a cycle and he had the time of his life time . People were simple and honest back then .
Now newspaper has been replaced by News channels , cinemas are replaced by netflix and Disney+ , cycles are now replaced by cars and bikes , spotify is the new Casette player.
Technology has changed our life styles and how people live but it also has taken so much culture away . Back when they had limited technology they still had alot of chances to meet and greet and have family time now we live together but hardly ever talk.
Yet i love how travelling is easier now back in the 1980s cars weren't common .
Pros of being in generation are that we have better vehicles and gadgets also better medical facilities .
How ever i still believe people back then were more closer to nature and were more responsible then people today .
What are your thoughts on this ?
What generation do you think has or had it the best ?
(Pictures take from Pixabay edited in Inshot)
There is one rule that has been true and will remain to be true: The past was always worse.
back in the 80's when you had an accident, you usually got wounded. The cars had no crinkle zone to absorb energy, seatbelts were often as dangerous as gallows and airbags (if present at all) tended to explode.
The farther back in time one goes, the lower the life expectancy becomes. Same goes for average wealth. People now are often poor, but the same people would have been poorer in the past.
If you want to talk to your mother who lives on the other side of the planet, you can. And you can do so relatively cheap and instantly. In the past you'd have to write, or go there yourself.
We have more culture today than ever. The internet and computers have created a whole new culture, and gave us access to all cultures across the planet. We have now access to all the accumalated knowledge of all mankind in our pockets, and we can simply ask every question we can think of, and get an anwer within seconds. This made us more honest in many ways, as lies can be checked and uncovered with ease, also because of our access to knowledge. That most people, for some reason, do not make us of that near devine power and often believe anything anyone tells them without checking for themselves is incomprehensible to me, but is their own fault and problem, not that of the times we live in.
People are more responsible now than ever. Even if you only look at the number and severity of the responsibilities. A lowly educated, low salary, it-support employee can find themselves responsible for the functioning of systems that control machines generating electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes. Or for medical devices, information like company secrets or worse. And the average it-support employee get 20-40 issues per day to handle and take responsibility for. That weighs heavier than a worker on the same level had to cope with 40 years ago. We're closer to nature as well, having climate change hanging over us like the sword of Damocles. i guarantee nature is more on our minds than it ever was for the people 40 years ago. No, the past is always worse.