The good old days.....

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Skywise



How? Except for the fact that cars were weak and the dash board targeted your forhead if you crashed. Less pollution, no STM, 90% less cancer......Please. And that's not even part of the thread topic.

Check out life expectancy tables. They might not answer your question of "how", but they surely should lay to rest any doubts as to Che's claim.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Skywise


I'm 27 btw.



I will deal with it....my question is, how will it change? How can we anticipate this?

27 means you are no longer part of the younger generation.

[Dracon II]

In Australia it seems the apprentice labourers are making more than University graduates. My mechanic and carpenter friends are making more than I'm hoping to... even with an honours degree and possibly a phd. But I'm doing it for the knowledge not the money...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Skywise
How? Except for the fact that cars were weak and the dash board targeted your forhead if you crashed. Less pollution, no STM, 90% less cancer......Please. And that's not even part of the thread topic.

TB, pnuenonia, polio, typhoid, cholera, diptheria, etc., etc. The average life expectancy incresaed almost 20 years during the last century. Sure, we get more cancer, cuz we live so much longer now. Food was a lot less safe, although recently poultry has become toxic when uncooked.

Cars are safer, work is safer, planes are safer, our elderly are far less likely to end their days in poverty.

Yeah, a lot of things are new and scary, but that's life in capitalism. It's gonna change, and change fast. Every generation says the children today are lazy slackers who don't know how easy they have things and how school just isn't as rigorous as it used to be. I've heard the same **** since the 70s, and even back then, the Boomers used to talk about how their parents did it to them, and my grandparents said the same thing about their parents. Hell, the Romans said the same thing about their kids.

It's just not true, because if it was, it's been true forever, and then there's no way to explain how civilization ever advanced.

[Spec]

Originally posted by JohnT
Mark this day, Spec.

For it's the day you officially turned old.

I realized this when I was 18 years old and saw that in know way possible I could study until my thirties to earn a decent revenu. And it got me so mad.....It still does today....School is not for people like me. The way its going now, it seems that it cuts off a lot of potentiel from society.

[Dracon II]

But that's good because it means the people who go to uni and do humanities degrees do it because they're passionate about what they're learning.

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Skywise
It was easier then to get started in life then than it is today.

Oh how I wish to be a factory worker in Detroit circa 1902. How fun it would be to toil in the coal pits for 18 hours a day and be able to afford food for half of my children while having to sell the other children for a decent bottle of whiskey.

[JohnT]

Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.

[Spec]

So you are saying that kids are not getting spoiled more and more every year, and that advertisment hasn't turned christmas and birthdays into a freakshow.
You think its normal that 115% of the net revenu of an average Canadian goes to paying his debts? And it has always been like that? Students with 50k$ student loans because they need to study til they're 30. Then when you paid it off you buy a house....when you're 40 and most never get to pay it off....How come that today people own cars that are worth their gross annual income.....

It was easier to start in life then, face it. And its getting worst and worst.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV


Oh how I wish to be a factory worker in Detroit circa 1902. How fun it would be to toil in the coal pits for 18 hours a day and be able to afford food for half of my children while having to sell the other children for a decent bottle of whiskey.

40 ago people, not 100, 40 years.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Skywise
So you are saying that kids are not getting spoiled more and more every year, and that advertisment hasn't turned christmas and birthdays into a freakshow.
You think its normal that 115% of the net revenu of an average Canadian goes to paying his debts. And it has always been like that. Students with 50k$ student loans because they need to study til they're 30. Then when you paid it off you buy a house....when you are 40 and most never get to pay it off....How come that today people own cars that are worth their gross annual income.....

It was easier to start in life then, face it. And its getting worst and worst.

kids are getting spoiled more every year, but this has always been the case. This is what I'm saying. As technology and wealth advances, this is bound to be the case. but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. This is just how the world changes as we adance technologically.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Skywise



40 ago people, not 100, 40 years.

So, what you're saying is that 40 years ago society was in perfect balance when it came to youthful expectations and societal demands?

That would've been... 1965. Yeah, the students were real happy then.

[Spec]

So, according to you Diss, technology makes Barbies and Brittney a MUST at Christmas? And it also makes it ok that you have to study 25 years to be able to buy it for your kid so that she doesn't feel appart from other kids. And you also want to buy it for her because you feel guilty of spendiing so much time working like your wife instead of spending time with the kids.

[Carolus Rex]

"The strange thing about our days is that, in the future, they'll be referred to as The Good Old Days"...

Hemingway, I believe.

Carolus

[Spec]

Originally posted by JohnT


So, what you're saying is that 40 years ago society was in perfect balance when it came to youthful expectations and societal demands?

That would've been... 1965. Yeah, the students were real happy then.

No. What I am saying is that 40 years ago it was a lot easier to start in life than today. Life was less stressful too.