Society has undergone drastic changes over the past decades. Technological advancements and shifted values have led many to believe things may be taking a turn for the worse.
These changes also ignited a recent Reddit discussion, with someone asking, “What worrisome trend in society are you beginning to notice?” People got candid about the alarming evolution of artificial intelligence and overconsumption while pointing out the decay in moral values.
It’s quite a gloomy topic to open up but an eye-opener, nonetheless. Scroll through to find the readers' responses, and feel free to chime in below.
#1
The sheer lack of empathy people have now. It's genuinely startling.
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#2
Anti-intellectualism, part of the distrust of 'experts' and 'elites'.
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#3
Parents aren't parenting anymore -kids need rules, consistency, and structure!
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#4
People can't spell. Most often noticed in online postings, but even novels and professional articles are frequently riddled with typos or other mistakes.
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#5
The absence of critical thinking in any sphere of influence.
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#6
Instead of helping someone in need, whip out that phone camera and record it.
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#7
Illiteracy- it’s an actual pandemic.
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#8
People don't believe in facts when they don't fit their opinion. They also don't make any effort to look something up if they don't know it, instead, they make up their own "facts".
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#9
Overconsumption.
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#10
We don’t own anything. Everything is subscription.
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#11
Wages are not keeping up with prices.
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#12
The lack of common manners like please and thank you.
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#13
Death of Expertise. Everyone's opinion is now valid.
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#14
Lack of humanity, empathy and community.
Being primitive, ignorant and sociopathic is becoming more and more of a virtue. Society is becoming more and more mean-spirited.
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#15
How much the rich people treat us like expendable puppets. Getting us fighting each other over the dumbest s**t, keeping us distracted, bribeing our governments, and of course invading our lives at every angle they can get.
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#16
AI starting to use AI as a source.
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#17
The rejection of evidence-based science.
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#18
No business takes responsibility anymore. You just always get the run around. If you have a problem, there is, in many cases, nobody who will fix it.
This month, I had $700 overcharged on my phone bill. I called customer service, and after waiting an hour on hold, they said I needed to go to the store. I went to the store, and they said I needed to call customer service. I convinced them I had and they told me someone would have to do it another day. Ended up having to go back a few times to get it fixed.
Or a couple years ago, I ordered groceries from the website of the grocery store. Something got messed up and I called the store. They said I needed to call some other company who actually does the shopping and have them fix it. The other company wouldn't even take my call! Just a robot that wouldn't help.
It used to be that if you had a problem with a business, you could just settle it with the business. See a person and they'd work it out. If you didn't feel like going in, a customer service agent on the phone would fix it. It wasnt even that long ago. Hell, I remember in 2015 or 16 having an issue with Amazon and getting offered a free month of prime. No chance that would happen today.
It really wasn't that long ago that things were much better.
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#19
Authoritarian personalities being accepted as ok again. As if we don’t have endless examples from all eras of history showing how bad that turns out.
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#20
Our brains being cooked by short internet content, 6 seconds at a time. Find it harder a harder to pick and focus on a book..
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#21
Everyone is on their phone and missing the life right in front of them. Children feel ignored because their parents are staring at screens instead of them.
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#22
Me-ism. It's become all about what someone wants, everyone else can go to hell.
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#23
Social media making people feel like their lives are "less than.".
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#24
Every damn person in the U.S. is expecting you to tip them.
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#25
The difficulty of using the internet. Yes I accept the cookies, close the advert, skip the sponsor, oh no this video is 30 minutes on how to toast bread, find a 5 minute another one, no dislike button, ah yes let me favourite it, on no I was auto signed out for security reasons, get my phone to 2fa, oh I need to also type in the code from my email, 2fa into my email, no I wouldn’t like an office 365 subscription, complete the recaptcha, oh my password expired and can’t be set again as the old one? I’ll just login to YouTube using google. or was it using my Apple ID? Or Facebook? or twitter, or Microsoft account… oh god I can’t remember which one I originally used. Oh and while I’m ranting, search engine results have definitely gotten worse over time.
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#26
The embracing of ignorance, trolling and being uneducated.
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#27
Misinformation. If their beliefs are proven wrong, they cling to anything else that does even if it’s false and spread it like a virus.
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#28
The bystander effect. Instead of helping people when they're in a dangerous or harmful situation, no one does anything. They just watch, or they take out their phone and just record. It's really concerning.
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#29
The rise of manufactured outrage as a business by professional grifters.
Find a group of people who feel disenfranchised, tell them the source of their woes is because of X group/thing that is unfairly targeting them or keeping something from them, and to never, never, never ever question themselves because they have a massive victim complex.
It's become a multi billion dollar industry at this point.
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#30
People voting for hate.
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