Which past generation had an easier time? Baby boomers, maybe? But they still lived under the threat of nuclear war.
I’ll take bad social media over nuclear war, plague, or famine any day.
I’ll take bad social media over nuclear war, plague, or famine any day.
The problem of appropriate mental development, formerly tackled through education, which in many territories largely failed, must be re-assessed, and progresses must be made with urgency. It is extremely important. The quality of your life depends on it - your engineers and butchers, traffic wardens and drivers, are also a social product, they fulfil their potential or get deficient out of their environment, and you want them in the "assets" column and not in the "liabilities" column.
Or are you here for the "hacking"?
Lighter remark: you want quality around you. «Or are you [at Hacker's News] for the "hacking"?»
Regarding your note about a generation which seemed to have had a better time, but spent under the threat of sudden annihilation: yes, absolutely - the former post was not a comment to that.
When you read «super shitty social media», maybe the poster could have found a better expression, but it is a distraction to find there an issue with "improvable" algorithms, when the issue may be more with the participants. There is inadequacy.
That inadequacy becomes very clear when the renovator damages your house, the mechanic your car, the medic your health.