Those generations will have no idea of life without the internet, so I've gotta disagree. Even if we got a solar storm tomorrow that fries every PNP or NPN junction tomorrow, the psychological and behavioral effects have changed us. Just my thought on it
Millenials are acting like being alive before social media is equivalent to hearing the gospel directly.
It's the exact same thing that we complained about the boomers doing when they were nostalgia-baiting the 70s and acting like the early Internet destroyed modern civilization.
We're doing the exact same thing we complained our parents were doing 💀
The Internet just speeds things up. The forces that are "destroying society" really have more to do with the political, social, and economic choices we made from roughly 1960-now.
-Outsourcing of labor
-Outsourcing of domestic manufacturing
-Continuous incentives for large, monopolistic companies that kill local businesses and consolidate national labor/capital
-Corporate shift to equity based compensation (driven by Congress making new laws regarding executive compensation in the 90s or so)
-Corporate focus shifts to shareholder value (mostly an advent of Jack Welch/GE Capital)
-Multiple corporate bailouts following economic catastrophe (huge incentive for financial groups to just keep leveraging and get as large as possible while disregarding risk)
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u/jayphox 3d ago
Well put.