Half a century here, I've never had a time in my life where the next year was better than the last
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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Look at the bright side: every day is the best day of the rest of our lives!
Translation: every day will be worse than the last until death. I agree.
Is that from "Everything is Awesome" from the Lego Movie? Movie now seems much darker.
It's really sad that many young people are so pessimistic about the future. Despite some setbacks the last years, in many ways the world is still in a better place than it has ever been in human history.
Child mortality is still lower than ever, (extreme) poverty is still on a declining trend, we're actually on track to stop the worst climate change (thanks to massive Chinese investments), AI could vastly improve our lives in the future...
That said we do live in uncertain times, fascism is on the rise again, a nuclear war could still kill us all, fighting climate change is not done,l and AI could ruine all our lives; but pessimism is not the right mindset.
I do joke a lol, but things in many areas are so much better than 30-50 years ago and considering Brits in WW II had to turn out all their lights to hinder German bombings - most of us are being peddled fear by the media and it's not THAT bad.
Where did you get the climate hope bit? last articles I glazed over were 'we missed 1.5 deg target and instead put the foot on the pedal to make it faster' and 'climate migrations coming and mass famine'.
Sounder doomerism to me but I don't really have a good source to be optimistic at all.
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we’re actually on track to stop the worst climate change (thanks to massive Chinese investments)
No, we damn well aren't.
AI could vastly improve our lives in the future
It could also make it vastly worse in the future, which is the more likely scenario.
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I wouldn’t be gentle. But then again both my parents are dead so I don’t actually have anyone to be bitter at.
Expectation is the main ingredient to disappointment. All you have to do is lower your expectations to where the bar is, so when good things do happen, it'll feel better when they do.
Am 39 and feel this
Wait, your parents don't understand that everybody under 40 has the same outlook on life? What a pair of idiots.