[goatcode]

Generation 0: each child kills 0 people on average.

Generation 1: each child kills 1 people on average. G0 comments that kids are killing more people these days.

Generation 2: each child kills 2 people on average. G1 comments that kids are killing more people these days.

Generation 3: each child kills 3 people on average. G2 comments that kids are killing more people these days.

Generation 3 points out that "lol people have been saying that forever. Nothing is happening. Our generation aren't that bad, because previous generations had the same narrative."

Please.

[z3c0]

I'm catching a whiff of straw... There's a fundamental distinction between a relative statement eg "People are working less than they were before" and an absolute statement eg "Nobody wants to work anymore". What you've demonstrated falls into the former.

[goatcode]

Relationships in time work transitively -- if each successive generation is worse, they're by definition worse than any have been before. See: Peter Gibbons and how his life is the worst its ever been, each new day.

[quacked]

"All of these new social practices are going to crash society!"

(Societies crash)

1000 years later:

"People have always been saying that!"