• Dark ArcA
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    7 months ago

    except for that whole racism thing

    And great depression thing … and then the world war 2 thing … and the Spanish flu and world war 1 only about a decade before.

    You can imagine a future person looking at a video of someone with a fidget spinner and thinking “life really was easy back then.”

    Every generation has different luxuries and problems.

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      7 months ago

      Guess you don’t have to try hard to sell a product if people are addicted to it, be they cigarettes or fidget spinners.

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        7 months ago

        Strangely enough, I almost never see fidget spinners anymore, and I work with kids. I do keep having to pick cigarette butts off the ground tho (not from the kids).

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      7 months ago

      I dunno… I can look back at native Americans before whitey showed up or further back to hunter-gatherers and think they had it pretty easy compared to now. They didn’t spend 8+ hours a day, every day working at a thing that’s meaningless; they didn’t have mortgages or bills; they didn’t have traffic; or ads, or any number of the dumb ass things we’ve made harder in the effort of making things easier.

      I’d take a lack of medicine and the possibility of being eaten by wild animals over all the modern bullshit that makes it impossible to just live.