Inspired by a post I saw on AskReddit (which has now been removed). What is something you believe is growing because of young people?
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Mocktails and thrifting, in North America.
It’s hard to imagine why they would remove it; I can’t think of a way that this topic would be objectionable to anyone.
Well certainly not Lemmy it seems 😝
I suggest that youth or young adults are a core contingent of pretty much every antifascist and climate movement. Those movements are growing as well.
The consensus in the West that Israel is an unapologetic fascist ethno-state prosecuting a genocide against Palestinians
more than that, it extends to the us empire.
people seem to recognize that they are the baddies now.
Hey, now. You almost forgot to include the Lebanese people in that list.
They haven’t really done anything comparable to the Lebanese, but there is all kinds of places in the Middle East they covet.
Only because they haven’t had as much time and because Iran (a major ally of Lebanon) is much more capable of fighting back. The Israeli government officials have said similarly genocidal language as they have been saying about Palestinians.
The dicks of people in the Epstein files who are still not prosecuted
Maybe not directly related to young age, but incompetence in problem solving is growing. This could be COVID era fallout.
My kid is a teacher and the newer generation of kids can’t do anything by themselves without explicit direction. They dont know how to help themselves. They have no life learned skill or curiosity, as they possible just were fed screen time as a babysitter.
From what I understand, the kids who can figure things out, they read well, they can problem solve, they’re doing it really well. But the kids that my generation raised on iPads, didn’t work with them, didn’t let them go outside and play, didn’t let them fail, they really really can’t do anything.
It’s not that this generation is ALL fucked. It’s that the gap between the “smart” kids and the kids who got screwed is wider than usual. A lot of these kids are functionally illiterate. If they’re reading a paragraph and come across a word they don’t know, not only can they not figure out how to pronounce it but, they have no idea how to use context clues to figure out what it even means.
My 17 year old niece saw idiocracy for the first time recently. She compared it to half her high school. Some kid made fun of her recently for using the word “peculiar” because it’s apparently a big word no one has ever heard of before.
This sounds a lot like gripes that older generations have always had about younger generations.
This has been going on for generations. The world used to be a much more dyi, less prepackaged place. Each generation does less and less for themselves. I see the difference between my father’s generation and my own as well as between my generation and later ones. Shit, my grandfather built his own fucking house.
People once complained about people reading newspapers on public transit.
Nothing has actually changed.
This sounds a lot like gripes that older generations have always had about younger generations.
But this younger generation is the youngest one yet!
You don’t get it, it’s different this time ™
It does till you experience it, and think wtf. Like a sudden dropoff. So maybe all the phone bans across countries is a good thing.
I had a degreed engineer ask me to help them tally the count of screen objects because they kept losing track. There were just over 10 items. I told them they needed to discuss the issue with their manager because clearly that’s a problem.
A solution if you lose track while counting could be hand tally on paper, colour code the objects as you tally, use the system and select them all and read the selection count. But to call tech support for manual counting help is crazy.
That does sound extreme, but no more insane than older people who can’t complete basic tasks in a word professor application.
Not being able to count to the teens is beyond insane.
It’s not that they “can’t count to the teens”. The wording used in the OP was that they keep “losing track”. That’s very different and could suggest some kind of visual processing or attention issue rather than not understanding basic numeracy. Those kinds of issues are common intellectual disabilities that people can still succeed with if they find the right mechanisms to allow them to do the same tasks as other people.
I was born just before the death of the floppy disk and the number of people I’ve met who can say “I bet you don’t know what’s that symbol is based on” while also not knowing it saves your work is the reason I’m in mental health instead of tech.
Stupid has nothing to do with age.
It’s not insane, it’s divergent. There could be many reasons behind it.
Its one example, but the new engineers coming in expect people to solve their problem while they check their insta. Literally had my tech guy deployed to help a new engineer, as our guy demonstrates the software steps to solve the issue the guy needing help is doing personal social media checks… He though people just come do it for you when you get stuck. We have even had young supposed IT staff call in for support and they clearly have no skills on solving issues.
I think you might have replied to the wrong comment? I’m not sure how what you’ve posted is connected to what I wrote.
I actually never understood that part. Like VCR clocks flashing. Especially when this lady exists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVI6SCtVu4c
GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
I have a 12 yo. Definitely a different childhood than I had, but not less helpless or ignorant than I was at that age. Less curious, i.e. in school and sciences, but that could be just a personality thing.
There are exceptions, but overall there a decline in self help or curiosity for self learning. We even see it at work with the new engineers.
Conservative ideology.
Yeah, fascism.
Young people aren’t having babies. This is a growing global problem. It’s going to get so bad that we won’t have enough people to do all the work needed to support retirees.
It’s going to lead to unrest in many countries as normal services become unmanned and unreliable.
This is only a problem if you view humans as more important than the rest of the living world. Like all of it.
People are finally realizing that the current state of the world is abysmal for bringing a child into. My wife and I don’t plan on kids anyway, but even if we did, there’s no way in hell we could afford to within the next decade, not to mention how irresponsible it feels to introduce a new life to this fascist shithole.
I cannot believe my brother chose to have kids. There’s no chance in hell I’d subject another human to this.
In the UK we are hellbent on completely cutting immigration, and the same people who want to stop immigration also don’t want to do anything to help more young people become more financially stable which would naturally lead to more births. Neoliberalism put us in the hole and people think fascism will get us out.
Speaking personally, I genuinely couldn’t afford to have kids as well as pay for a mortgage/rent and own a car. If I can’t get a mortgage or pay rent, I’m living with my parents forever. If I can’t have a car, I can’t get around very well because public transport where I live is shit. Therefore limited work options. So the obvious choice is to not have kids.
I agree this is going to become an even bigger problem in the future, if wealth inequality continues to grow and young people are left with a feeling of hopelessness unable to have a respectable quality of life.
This one’s easily solved by removing restrictions on immigration
Not really. No country has all the resources to make or assembly all the critical items we all consume. We need people where they are so they can continue to make/produce/assemble.
This is the worst argument against immigration I’ve ever heard
I’m not anti-immigration. Immigration is not the fix for how the world will deal with declining birth rates world wide, leading to a large gap between the number of available laborers and the number of laborers needed to keep things running smoothly.
Immigration only works if one country has more people than jobs while another country has more jobs than people.
What we’re headed into right now is more jobs than people by a LOT.
Also, Japan is a country that hit this problem early on (they culturally don’t have much immigration) and found that it’s also possible to export your dumb jobs to other countries that also buy the things they are making, keeping only the ones they are really good at in-country while scraping all the revenue from their exported labor. This only works because other countries were a little slower to run into this birth rate issue.
Most of these problems fall back to WW2 and the massive amount of babies that were born afterwards.
