[juanci_to]

Let's be fair, humanity has been saying that everything is falling apart for centuries.

There's in the front page a post that's named: "A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore"¹ that shows registers from as early as 1894 of media saying "Nobody wants to work anymore".

Even the classic "Kids these days" can be tracked back to 624 BCE².

Socrates said too something along those lines: «The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.»

[1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32161426)

[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_these_days)

[mdp2021]

You are forgetting a very important thing: the ever-increasing power of misplaced technology - once upon a time ability for damage equaled to a rock or a stick, today...

The "great responsibility" that should have accompanied the "great power" is dwarfed. Wisdom should needingly¹ increase more than power - of course this is not how things go.

(¹I cannot find the term for the modality: not "deontically", not "absiologically"... The idea is "X, or you are in trouble".)

So, "in the times of yore, civilization was falling apart". Today, it is with boosted damages.

[superchroma]

Well, we've never had microplastics inside literally everything before, and I'm not too thrilled about it, and forever chemicals aren't too flash either. We get a pass for asbestos because the earth made it (thanks for nothing, gaia), and radiation because it goes away, but we've really taken the cake for worst idea with these things.

[InitialLastName]

Using lead everywhere well after we knew it was causing major damage was a pretty bad idea.

[tsol]

It wasn't actually Socrates that said that, btw

[juanci_to]

It's then one of these moments: «Not every quote you read on the Internet is true.» – Abraham Lincoln