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It’s pretty good compared to, say, 100 years ago. But is it better than, idk, 10 years ago? This is highly dependent where you live, of course. But, in the US, I can 100% say life was better a decade ago and people weren’t outright rejecting intellectualism en masse.

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FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The idiots didn’t have their own eco chamber. As an unfortunate byproduct of the social media they realised how many of them there are and organised themselves.

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- LeoshenkuoDaSimpli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I wish they had an eco chamber! Their echo chamber is vehemently against that, though.
  
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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
54, American here. Yeah, I think we peaked in the 80s and 90s after a small setback in the 70s. Through 2010 was pretty good as well except for 9/11 fucking up our politics and legislation.

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- bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’d agree the US peaked in the 90s. 2008 really fucked us for almost a decade, though. Economy had essentially recovered by 2014/2015sh until COVID. I’m almost 40, so most of my adult life has been plagued by crisis after crisis.
  
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  - shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Quite my last tech support job in 2007, hated it, ready to move up. Didn’t score another IT role for 7 years, hated the job I was in.
    
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