We all know life is easier in many respects than it was fifty years ago, but in what ways would you consider it to be more difficult?
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Jodie44
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In my experience, it's much harder to form strong, lasting personal friendships, people just don't seem to have very much empathy these days. Although I have no real way of knowing, people may well have been that way fifty years ago too... Also, it's much more stressful, there's a lot less time to just stop and really think.
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the internet makes it harder for people to be secure in their finances and also personal information. more people means more problems all around. kids think they cant be disciplined anymore so they get medicated instead and that focuses them enough to figure out new ways to terrorize their parents. parenting is harder now because spanking is becoming a bad idea for some reason. i got spanked and let me tell you i needed it sometimes.
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I think it is more difficult because of the breakdown in society. People can be damaged by divorce, for example. I'm not saying divorce shouldn't happen, obviously there are often times when the hostility between two people creates a toxic environment for the kids to be in. But divorce can adversely affect children. And children who grow up in one parent families can miss out on the role modelling of their absent parent. I am speaking from my own experience having grown up loosing my father through divorce.
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Hmm. That's a really good question. I would say that in some ways there's alot of pressure from parents to do well and be really smart, but I think that has been around for a long time. I would also say that there are different life challenged than there were today. For example, 50 years ago, here in the USA you didn't really hear about gay people. It just wasn't talked about as an option. Honestly, I don't think it's HARDER, I just think it's different. There was a lesson of tolerance to be learned previously with the "race" issues, and now (While that still isn't fixed, it has gotten a bit better), we have LGBT issues and religion issues and many other tolerance issues to deal with.
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I believe the late-20th/early-21st century is the *MOST* difficult time to live in of any human age. Not in a physical food/shelter/clothing acquisition sense, but in a mental making-correct-decisions sense. Consider this, prior to the Industrial Revolution, if you had a piece of land and a clean water source, all you really needed to know was how to farm. Everything else in your life was pretty much out of your control. Compare that to the modern industrial world, where having a career that can sustain a middle-class lifestyle requires at least a bachelors degree, and trending towards requiring a master's degree or PhD. Furthermore, the decisions we collectively need to make, such as "What do we do about the war in Iraq?" or "What, if anything, do we do about global warming?" almost require a college degree in those specialties to understand them. Even the simple question of "Paper or plastic?" at the grocery store doesn't have a simple straightforward "right" answer. It's little wonder that our brain, which evolved in small hunter/gatherer tribes, is increasingly incapable of coping with the modern world.
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My impression is that we have been flooded by too much information, entertainment, technology, political correctness and social/world/health issues, most of which are beyond our control, but impacting our enjoyment of life. If we take time to consider the limits of our impact, draw a circle around those things we consider important to us, and allow others to fret about the issues of their choice, we could focus our time and attention and include more satisfying elements to our lives.
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The weather - Traffic - Guns are easier to obtain - Greediness
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Sadly, somewhere in the late 20th century, we discovered that having all the material goods was not the answer if you lacked companionship, if you were lonely, isolated, stressed and overworked. We found out that having that big family which bugged us, had its advantages, especially when we tried to raise children on our own. We suddenly remembered all the fun we had as children when we did not have to worry about traffic, drugs and pedophilia. And when there was no terrorism, domestic or international.
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we are developing technology that could destroy us if we aren't careful. Our society is very hippocritical and can take lives. We have no reliable source of information as they are all bias in some way. most of our politicians just want a good image. People are obsessed with skin and not what is inside of us. Bigger citys, more pollution.. there are a lot of reasons..
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Getting a job, getting a GOOD education, walking down the street safely, affordable housing, and you still think its easier????
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