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Is it just me or i feel life is getting more difficult these days? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 days ago by shojivr@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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i am middle aged man, i experienced life since before even computer and smartphone is a thing like today.

back then, i feel that life is much easier, what i mean easier is more simple life, less competition, less stress, fresh environment, and more happiness despite lack of technology.

but right now, everything is just too complicated despite of power of tech, internet, smartphone, and AI helps, i feel that life is much harder right now, what i mean is like competition is everywhere, stressful everyday, crowded city, and i easily depressed these days.

is it just me or everyone else can relate to what happens right now?

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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Wealth divide is worse. We are also in a time of change geopolitically. Also in a time where powerful actors benefit from creating controversy including media, social medial, political, and geopolitical. We live in interesting times.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Describe a time of geopolitical non-change please.

[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

Well, before smartphones people didn't get bombarded with bad news all the time. The changes were there but we hardly noticed them. Now they're being shoved in our schnozes to instill fear and push us all to the far right.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Largely from 1947 to 2020.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Cold War. Transfer of Hong Kong to China. The collapse of the USSR. Arab/Israeli wars. Vietnam and the Peace Movement. The oil crisis. 9/11. End of Segregation in the US. Womens' Rights especially after the Pill Gay/Trans Rights The Korean War The Beatles

It's pretty much constant.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

All fairly minor. Now we are leaving the post WW2 era. No one knows what is next.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Cold War, the threat of "Mutually Assure Destruction" that hung over all of heads for decades until the USSR dissolved, was "fairly minor"??????

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That has not ended. Russia and China have large supplies of nuclear weapons. Just like WW2, Russia has initiate a war in Europe with China, NK, and Iran as allies. China will invade TW at some point. NK may do the same to SK. All of these allies are nuclear powers except Iran which will be.