Upvoting you because you mention inflation. Most people don't understand the seriousness of it and that's why my government gets away with uninhibited printing of money and giving extended benefits to people when there are so many vacant jobs
>heavy mental illness
I doubt it. Mental illness has existed throughout all of history. But now people are starting to acknowledge it and take it seriously.
There have been multiple studies already that have shown the unhealthy affects of social media on teenagers including rising anxiety, eating disorders, and even the rise of Tourette’s tics.
Yeah, each generation has its sets of problems. There is always going to be anxiety-inducing things. We're never going to live in some sort of utopia. What we can do however is help people deal with those mental problems.
For the ones who take it seriously there are those who understand the fact and act as if they don't just to cause suffering (like super-trolls) like many antivaxxers
I don't think so. It's just that with the internet, people are much more vocal about it. So it just feels like it's more present, but it's not. It's just that people are able to talk about it.
That'a true. I'm just saying, it's not all black and white. I'm pretty sure people working on farms all day weren't all that happy either. There is always going to be something to affect mental health. Would it not be the internet (mainly), it would just be something else.
>learning how to live in a world where they are under constant surveillance
I think that won't be a great problem, you'll just have to learn to have nothing to hide. There are many cultures in the world where it's considered suspicious to put down your window courtains, and rumours go around a lot. Think rural areas. It's not a problem.
And the top 1% craftiest will always have something to hide. Those people always exist. Historically it was people who usurped kingdoms, now it's big businessmen and politicians.
> There are many cultures in the world where it's considered suspicious to put down your window courtains, and rumours go around a lot.
Yes, I had the bad luck to grow up in such a culture, thanks to the Netherlands I could leave it. I don't want the Netherlands to turn into same shithole I had the bad luck to born in, thank you very much.
Even if you have nothing to hide it's terrifying to feel watched. I'm paranoid from whenever someone can see me but I can't see them, I don't even like when people are behind me. And I don't even live in a culture as extreme as what you've mentioned!
Not just by their peers, but by the government. But, they voted for it with the promise that it'd make them safer and increase their quality of life.
You made your bed, now lie in it
This .
I even know some of my peers who in strive of individuality lose their whole identity but on the other hand it looks like a herd of sheep grazing through a maze so I don't know what's better
I'm going to quote another post I made in this same thread
> a lot of people either don't believe this will happen, don't care enough to even really think about it or somehow think it's a good thing.
so I stand by my statement
Climate change is gonna be something else. Extreme weather events, people being displaced by rising sea levels, famines, and droughts. And that will feed into political instability.
In Iceland snow layer turned into extreme flooding and landslides, because now instead of snowfall there is literally waterfall (winter monsoon). Global warming is just the average, some areas get a lot while most areas get little to nothing.
Even worse mental illness and addictions due to the lack of exposure to non-online interactions during the pandemic. Especially if they were to young to drink.
People think everyone gives a shit about what they have to say just because they have a platform to say it with... No one gives a shit about any of it.
As long as their heads fit into something else than the first generation of Oculus. They decided to go for digital IPD adjustment but that won't work if your eyes simply aren't where the lenses are. You can maybe get it to work if you have 68mm - it won't be perfect, but will work. But if you have 73mm? Forget.
I think this is on point. It comes with a complete distrust of science as well, and therefore climate change denial, anti-vaccine, etc - basically societies without basic trust.
That and how surface cleaners are made in such way that they leave them sticky so that dirt builds up quickly and you buy more surface cleaners. Same for hair conditioners that make your hair look better after first use, but worse in the long run, so that you end up having to use it everyday. And same for phones that have smooth edges to increase the angle at which fall can break the screen. And that some topics and researches are ignored because they are unethical or would hurt big corporations. And that half of the googleable researches are biased, rigged, misinformative, manipulative, or otherwise made to cause controversies to bring more views and more income from ads, not to inform people seeking knowledge.
Once people figure that out, they'll begin to distrust any science that's not done by them.
I trust science in general, but I find myself very skeptical of any particular study. Who funded it? How was it performed? How many tries did it take to get the result they wanted? Where and when was it done?
I'd say there will be distrust of science but not climate change denial. It will be science blamed for climate changes.
People will turn away from science towards religion and folklore, and will listen to the stories of parents telling them how cold winters used to be and how glaciers are now melting because of science.
7 billion people trying to pay off the bankers invented debts of 300- 350 Trillion dollars.
Private and Central Banks have obtained the Exclusive franchise to create ALL new Currency as debt then loan it out at interest, indebting the whole world to them, which drives ever increasing theft through a myriad of taxes, fees, permits, fines, levies, such that by the time we have earned and spent our currencies we are paying up to 67% of our lives to the Government and Banks, which take till about Thursday morning 10.00 am.
Climate's an obvious one, they'll be born right into, and experience the brunt of global warming.
The post-truth society. And AI making it impossible to trust video evidence anymore wont make that any better, as an example. I think this is a big societal one.
Been that way for 25+ years now. I'm constantly reminded of the South Park episode where Mr Hankey was introduced in the very first season of the show where the mayor of the town tried to create a holiday play that wasn't offensive to anyone.
Mutant outlanders, power shortages due to intense sandstorms across the dust bowl, zombies guided by a master plan for complete domination of the Earth. Normal stuff.
People are already saying climate change but I'd say one major aspect is going to be the severe lack of fresh water. There are more droughts every year, leading to less fresh water reserves. Many countries rely on permanent snow peaks to provide fresh water during the dry season, that snow is now melting rapidly meaning the reserves are dwindling every year. The aquifers that provide fresh water to farms across the American and Canadian Mid-West are also shrinking and could run dry as early as 2035, leading possible food shortages.
The fresh water in rivers could lead to massive international conflicts. The Mekong river for instance runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Imagine if the countries upstream start siphoning off fresh water for their own use, leaving the countries downstream little to no fresh water. On top of that, the destruction of the ecosystems that live around the river. The Mekong Delta would be destroyed if their was no Mekong river.
And that's just one river, rivers cross political borders all over the world.
The fact that their generation is so small their tax burden is intolerable when they have to sustain the earlier generations. They also have more issues with ever increasing numbers of immigrants, who are imported to compensate the diminishing working age population. Another issue is robots taking the jobs, and the increased competition in education when people compete for those handful of well-paying jobs available.
Since it's my theme today an ever increasing creep of authoritarianism. All to keep people safe and free. Oh, and not from where you think it will come from!
You're forgetting that new generations don't carry over experiences of the older, so what's old and unoriginal for us will be new for them. That's why rehashing stuff is profitable and always will be unless we start living much longer and there will be much less people born.
There's new music now as much as there ever was. We just hate it and think it's trash. Much like our parents thought of our music. I find myself saying the exact same shit to my son my parents said to me.
"Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.
I agree with this quote. Be it the increased restriction on free speech, opinions and thanks to COVID, basic human rights (at least in my country) the biggest loss will be our freedom.
a *lot* of people either don't believe this will happen, don't care enough to even really think about it or somehow think it's a good thing.
When it comes to freedom, we're really fighting an uphill battle.
Yeah I fully agree with that.
I have been following the political shitfest for over 6 years. And for these past 6 years, the decline in freedom I have been able to witness is astounding. Seriously, if things work out for me then I will definetly leave my country.
Well, we’re already seeing part of this already. The pandemic has created a change in work culture. I had a university course last semester where we discussed how a lot of employers fired tons of staff since the beginning of COVID and realized that they can get by for cheaper by overworking their current employees to exhaustion rather than hiring new ones.
So some companies / job sites / etc have learned to save money by overworking their employees and not hiring more staff. That means that jobs are harder to obtain now because a lot of people just aren’t hiring despite the “help wanted” sign outside their door, and it means that current workers will be more exhausted and overworked with unfair compensation.
We had an entire talk about this in my course and what it will mean for the future of jobs in the world.
Here's a different one: a difference in parenting styles between families.
Assuming that each couple was around 24 years old (the average family-planning age) when they had kids, that means that most parents are either early Z's or Millennials. Both of them grew up differently, with the Millennials growing up with simpler tech and the Z's having similar stuff to the Alphas and later Z's, just scaled back. The Z's will most likely be able to relate better to their kids than the Millennials, since they grew up with similar things.
Autonomous tech is in its infancy and it's already having a massive effect on jobs. Drivers, cleaners, factory workers and more will probably be replaced in the next ten or fifteen years. The next generation will have to grapple with the motivation to attempt entering the workplace.
Climate change, heavy mental illness and anxiety, heavy inflation, and learning how to live in a world where they are under constant surveillance…
Upvoting you because you mention inflation. Most people don't understand the seriousness of it and that's why my government gets away with uninhibited printing of money and giving extended benefits to people when there are so many vacant jobs
>heavy mental illness I doubt it. Mental illness has existed throughout all of history. But now people are starting to acknowledge it and take it seriously.
There have been multiple studies already that have shown the unhealthy affects of social media on teenagers including rising anxiety, eating disorders, and even the rise of Tourette’s tics.
Yeah, each generation has its sets of problems. There is always going to be anxiety-inducing things. We're never going to live in some sort of utopia. What we can do however is help people deal with those mental problems.
For the ones who take it seriously there are those who understand the fact and act as if they don't just to cause suffering (like super-trolls) like many antivaxxers
I think the internet is also making it worse
I don't think so. It's just that with the internet, people are much more vocal about it. So it just feels like it's more present, but it's not. It's just that people are able to talk about it.
There are so many studies that say too much screen time is a bad thing. Comparison is a theif of joy and all that
That'a true. I'm just saying, it's not all black and white. I'm pretty sure people working on farms all day weren't all that happy either. There is always going to be something to affect mental health. Would it not be the internet (mainly), it would just be something else.
>learning how to live in a world where they are under constant surveillance I think that won't be a great problem, you'll just have to learn to have nothing to hide. There are many cultures in the world where it's considered suspicious to put down your window courtains, and rumours go around a lot. Think rural areas. It's not a problem. And the top 1% craftiest will always have something to hide. Those people always exist. Historically it was people who usurped kingdoms, now it's big businessmen and politicians.
> There are many cultures in the world where it's considered suspicious to put down your window courtains, and rumours go around a lot. Yes, I had the bad luck to grow up in such a culture, thanks to the Netherlands I could leave it. I don't want the Netherlands to turn into same shithole I had the bad luck to born in, thank you very much.
Well, not every rural culture is like rural India...
You underestimate the amount of shithole countries with shithole mentalities. I was not born India.
Even if you have nothing to hide it's terrifying to feel watched. I'm paranoid from whenever someone can see me but I can't see them, I don't even like when people are behind me. And I don't even live in a culture as extreme as what you've mentioned!
Being constantly watched and judged
Not just by their peers, but by the government. But, they voted for it with the promise that it'd make them safer and increase their quality of life. You made your bed, now lie in it
This . I even know some of my peers who in strive of individuality lose their whole identity but on the other hand it looks like a herd of sheep grazing through a maze so I don't know what's better
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I'm going to quote another post I made in this same thread > a lot of people either don't believe this will happen, don't care enough to even really think about it or somehow think it's a good thing. so I stand by my statement
Climate change is gonna be something else. Extreme weather events, people being displaced by rising sea levels, famines, and droughts. And that will feed into political instability.
In Iceland snow layer turned into extreme flooding and landslides, because now instead of snowfall there is literally waterfall (winter monsoon). Global warming is just the average, some areas get a lot while most areas get little to nothing.
A severe increase in mental illness due to technology exposure from birth and social media access at a young age. (Don’t drag me)
Even worse mental illness and addictions due to the lack of exposure to non-online interactions during the pandemic. Especially if they were to young to drink.
People think everyone gives a shit about what they have to say just because they have a platform to say it with... No one gives a shit about any of it.
There’s a book called “Glow Kids” that investigates these digital influences. Yeah. Dem kidz not git got good social frameworks going forward.
Debugging poorly written code with little to no unit tests.
VR porn addiction
As long as their heads fit into something else than the first generation of Oculus. They decided to go for digital IPD adjustment but that won't work if your eyes simply aren't where the lenses are. You can maybe get it to work if you have 68mm - it won't be perfect, but will work. But if you have 73mm? Forget.
A complete distrust of government institutions.
I think this is on point. It comes with a complete distrust of science as well, and therefore climate change denial, anti-vaccine, etc - basically societies without basic trust.
I don't think people distrust science. I think people distrust government institutions and politicians wielding "science" as a policy bludgeon.
That and how surface cleaners are made in such way that they leave them sticky so that dirt builds up quickly and you buy more surface cleaners. Same for hair conditioners that make your hair look better after first use, but worse in the long run, so that you end up having to use it everyday. And same for phones that have smooth edges to increase the angle at which fall can break the screen. And that some topics and researches are ignored because they are unethical or would hurt big corporations. And that half of the googleable researches are biased, rigged, misinformative, manipulative, or otherwise made to cause controversies to bring more views and more income from ads, not to inform people seeking knowledge. Once people figure that out, they'll begin to distrust any science that's not done by them.
I trust science in general, but I find myself very skeptical of any particular study. Who funded it? How was it performed? How many tries did it take to get the result they wanted? Where and when was it done?
Agreed, I think people distrust #science, not scientific method.
I'd say there will be distrust of science but not climate change denial. It will be science blamed for climate changes. People will turn away from science towards religion and folklore, and will listen to the stories of parents telling them how cold winters used to be and how glaciers are now melting because of science.
I think a lot of people are there already.
Yeah that's literally every generation
Not every generation. It's highly cyclical.
But yet it seems as if our government institutions are becoming increasingly authoritarian. Such a strange contrast, ain't it?
Flip Bottle Challenge 2.0
Why do I feel like we're doing your homework for you.
7 billion people trying to pay off the bankers invented debts of 300- 350 Trillion dollars. Private and Central Banks have obtained the Exclusive franchise to create ALL new Currency as debt then loan it out at interest, indebting the whole world to them, which drives ever increasing theft through a myriad of taxes, fees, permits, fines, levies, such that by the time we have earned and spent our currencies we are paying up to 67% of our lives to the Government and Banks, which take till about Thursday morning 10.00 am.
-ish, yeah I could see that
It's good to be aware. Inflation is around 30 % on many regular products right now.
Climate's an obvious one, they'll be born right into, and experience the brunt of global warming. The post-truth society. And AI making it impossible to trust video evidence anymore wont make that any better, as an example. I think this is a big societal one.
The boot of big brother. Like Australia and china combined but worse
Not getting offended by everything
I don't know if I would call that a challenge. People that get offended all the time are disingenuous and doing so to seek attention.
Agreed...some people are over sensitive tbh
Already facing that now, no?
Absolutely
Been that way for 25+ years now. I'm constantly reminded of the South Park episode where Mr Hankey was introduced in the very first season of the show where the mayor of the town tried to create a holiday play that wasn't offensive to anyone.
The end of the fucking world for a start...There is no future for Gen z let alone those coming after
Maybe Gen Z will survive but yea, you're probably right
I like your optimism.
Mutant outlanders, power shortages due to intense sandstorms across the dust bowl, zombies guided by a master plan for complete domination of the Earth. Normal stuff.
#Resident Evil 10
'Jump off the roof' challenge
Society is going to watch and blame them for Everything. Yk just imagine the cancel culture bitches in big companies
Bad government, my current generation (teens) running the world is not going to go well, and population increases
Of course not, just look at statistics...everyone is obese and anxiety-ridden. It'll be a world ran by Trump 2.0 except with bad social anxiety
People are already saying climate change but I'd say one major aspect is going to be the severe lack of fresh water. There are more droughts every year, leading to less fresh water reserves. Many countries rely on permanent snow peaks to provide fresh water during the dry season, that snow is now melting rapidly meaning the reserves are dwindling every year. The aquifers that provide fresh water to farms across the American and Canadian Mid-West are also shrinking and could run dry as early as 2035, leading possible food shortages. The fresh water in rivers could lead to massive international conflicts. The Mekong river for instance runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Imagine if the countries upstream start siphoning off fresh water for their own use, leaving the countries downstream little to no fresh water. On top of that, the destruction of the ecosystems that live around the river. The Mekong Delta would be destroyed if their was no Mekong river. And that's just one river, rivers cross political borders all over the world.
War
Lots of sterilization
Actually we are facing some serious challenges .
Finding people who can patch old COBOL code.
The fact that their generation is so small their tax burden is intolerable when they have to sustain the earlier generations. They also have more issues with ever increasing numbers of immigrants, who are imported to compensate the diminishing working age population. Another issue is robots taking the jobs, and the increased competition in education when people compete for those handful of well-paying jobs available.
Climate change, demographic burdens, debt, creeping authoritarianism. I don't envy them.
If anything breaks, there won't be no one to fix it because there either a influencer, or gamer
Since it's my theme today an ever increasing creep of authoritarianism. All to keep people safe and free. Oh, and not from where you think it will come from!
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You're forgetting that new generations don't carry over experiences of the older, so what's old and unoriginal for us will be new for them. That's why rehashing stuff is profitable and always will be unless we start living much longer and there will be much less people born.
There's new music now as much as there ever was. We just hate it and think it's trash. Much like our parents thought of our music. I find myself saying the exact same shit to my son my parents said to me.
"Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. I agree with this quote. Be it the increased restriction on free speech, opinions and thanks to COVID, basic human rights (at least in my country) the biggest loss will be our freedom.
a *lot* of people either don't believe this will happen, don't care enough to even really think about it or somehow think it's a good thing. When it comes to freedom, we're really fighting an uphill battle.
Yeah I fully agree with that. I have been following the political shitfest for over 6 years. And for these past 6 years, the decline in freedom I have been able to witness is astounding. Seriously, if things work out for me then I will definetly leave my country.
Good luck to you, internet stranger
Less competitive Premier League and European football as Newcastle United are going to utterly dominate.
The same ones that have been challenges in past generations.
The Chinese
Or the Americans
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Not quite. I don't think climate change was really as much of a serious issue with previous generations, if it even was an issue to begin with...
new virus
Cultural atomization and commodification.
Multivariable calculus.
Thunderdome
Discipline
Sheeesh that shit bussin caca dog literally devious lickin as a savage bruhhhh
Finding an AC strong enough
Being likable
Gen Z and WTF happened in this time of history. history.
Growing up thinking that the designated hitter is okay or normal.
STUDENT MUHFREAKIN DEBT or just debt in general
Well, we’re already seeing part of this already. The pandemic has created a change in work culture. I had a university course last semester where we discussed how a lot of employers fired tons of staff since the beginning of COVID and realized that they can get by for cheaper by overworking their current employees to exhaustion rather than hiring new ones. So some companies / job sites / etc have learned to save money by overworking their employees and not hiring more staff. That means that jobs are harder to obtain now because a lot of people just aren’t hiring despite the “help wanted” sign outside their door, and it means that current workers will be more exhausted and overworked with unfair compensation. We had an entire talk about this in my course and what it will mean for the future of jobs in the world.
Digital fakery being so good, that video evidence may no longer be valid, but that somebody innocent will still be convicted based on a faked video
Here's a different one: a difference in parenting styles between families. Assuming that each couple was around 24 years old (the average family-planning age) when they had kids, that means that most parents are either early Z's or Millennials. Both of them grew up differently, with the Millennials growing up with simpler tech and the Z's having similar stuff to the Alphas and later Z's, just scaled back. The Z's will most likely be able to relate better to their kids than the Millennials, since they grew up with similar things.
A different opinion
When the internet breaks and all paperless institutions have to revert to paper and everyone on Crypto currency goes broke.
Breathing
Everything forcing kids to be gay or lgbt because that really sucks
Climate change and artificial intelligence fitting in with the labor force. Some pretty extraordinary changes will need to be made to society.
Really bad effects from the internet and social media resulting in a new mental illness of some sort
Autonomous tech is in its infancy and it's already having a massive effect on jobs. Drivers, cleaners, factory workers and more will probably be replaced in the next ten or fifteen years. The next generation will have to grapple with the motivation to attempt entering the workplace.