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Generation 0: each child kills 0 people on average. Generation 1: each child kills 1 people on average. G0 comments that kids are killing more people these da
by goatcode 4y ago
Generation 0: each child kills 0 people on average.
Generation 1: each child kills 1 people on average. G0 comments that kids are killing more people these days.
Generation 2: each child kills 2 people on average. G1 comments that kids are killing more people these days.
Generation 3: each child kills 3 people on average. G2 comments that kids are killing more people these days.
Generation 3 points out that "lol people have been saying that forever. Nothing is happening. Our generation aren't that bad, because previous generations had the same narrative."
Please.
- z3c0 4y agoI'm catching a whiff of straw... There's a fundamental distinction between a relative statement eg "People are working less than they were before" and an absolute statement eg "Nobody wants to work anymore". What you've demonstrated falls into the former.
- goatcode 4y agoRelationships in time work transitively -- if each successive generation is worse, they're by definition worse than any have been before. See: Peter Gibbons and how his life is the worst its ever been, each new day.
- quacked 4y ago"All of these new social practices are going to crash society!" (Societies crash) 1000 years later: "People have always been saying that!"