Inspired by a post I saw on AskReddit (which has now been removed). What is something you believe is growing because of young people?
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Baggy pants and chunky white sneakers. Ugh I’m so done with then. When can we get back to straight cut? I’m so sick of the skinny-baggy jeans back and forth
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That’s not because of young people, that’s their reaction to the actions of the boomers.
- heliotrope_ophidian@lemmy.mldeleted by creator3 months
Flip phones, dumb phones, interest in ‘digital minimalism’ or alternatives to smartphone use. Some of them see what is happening to their elders or peers and want to do something different.
- sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish3 months
Huh, interesting. This is something i associate more with millennials
- eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish3 months
It’s hard to imagine why they would remove it; I can’t think of a way that this topic would be objectionable to anyone.
- untorquer@quokk.auEnglish3 months
Well certainly not Lemmy it seems 😝
I suggest that youth or young adults are a core contingent of pretty much every antifascist and climate movement. Those movements are growing as well.
- Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish3 months
The dicks of people in the Epstein files who are still not prosecuted
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Young people aren’t having babies. This is a growing global problem. It’s going to get so bad that we won’t have enough people to do all the work needed to support retirees.
It’s going to lead to unrest in many countries as normal services become unmanned and unreliable.
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This is only a problem if you view humans as more important than the rest of the living world. Like all of it.
3 monthsPeople are finally realizing that the current state of the world is abysmal for bringing a child into. My wife and I don’t plan on kids anyway, but even if we did, there’s no way in hell we could afford to within the next decade, not to mention how irresponsible it feels to introduce a new life to this fascist shithole.
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I cannot believe my brother chose to have kids. There’s no chance in hell I’d subject another human to this.
- Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish3 months
I would not even bring a dog into this world, let alone a human.
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Adopt one? Absolutely. Intentionally breed for puppies? Hell no.
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Not really. No country has all the resources to make or assembly all the critical items we all consume. We need people where they are so they can continue to make/produce/assemble.
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I’m not anti-immigration. Immigration is not the fix for how the world will deal with declining birth rates world wide, leading to a large gap between the number of available laborers and the number of laborers needed to keep things running smoothly.
Immigration only works if one country has more people than jobs while another country has more jobs than people.
What we’re headed into right now is more jobs than people by a LOT.
Also, Japan is a country that hit this problem early on (they culturally don’t have much immigration) and found that it’s also possible to export your dumb jobs to other countries that also buy the things they are making, keeping only the ones they are really good at in-country while scraping all the revenue from their exported labor. This only works because other countries were a little slower to run into this birth rate issue.
Most of these problems fall back to WW2 and the massive amount of babies that were born afterwards.
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It’s only really the hyper developed countries that are experiencing the massive drop off in birth rates, so immigration would actually help this problem significantly.
Also, the lack of immigration in Japan is as much a matter of policy as it is everywhere else. Their government heavily discourages migrant labour (due in part to cultural racism), which has made their plummeting birth rate much more of a problem than it needs to be.
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It’s not going to be enough.
Birth rates aren’t going to magically turn around, immigration isn’t going to magically fix it.
- Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish3 months
Ultimately, so what? What is the problem you are attempting to prevent? Declining population is not per se a problem.
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Maybe not directly related to young age, but incompetence in problem solving is growing. This could be COVID era fallout.
My kid is a teacher and the newer generation of kids can’t do anything by themselves without explicit direction. They dont know how to help themselves. They have no life learned skill or curiosity, as they possible just were fed screen time as a babysitter.
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From what I understand, the kids who can figure things out, they read well, they can problem solve, they’re doing it really well. But the kids that my generation raised on iPads, didn’t work with them, didn’t let them go outside and play, didn’t let them fail, they really really can’t do anything.
It’s not that this generation is ALL fucked. It’s that the gap between the “smart” kids and the kids who got screwed is wider than usual. A lot of these kids are functionally illiterate. If they’re reading a paragraph and come across a word they don’t know, not only can they not figure out how to pronounce it but, they have no idea how to use context clues to figure out what it even means.
My 17 year old niece saw idiocracy for the first time recently. She compared it to half her high school. Some kid made fun of her recently for using the word “peculiar” because it’s apparently a big word no one has ever heard of before.
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I have a 12 yo. Definitely a different childhood than I had, but not less helpless or ignorant than I was at that age. Less curious, i.e. in school and sciences, but that could be just a personality thing.
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There are exceptions, but overall there a decline in self help or curiosity for self learning. We even see it at work with the new engineers.
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This sounds a lot like gripes that older generations have always had about younger generations.
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This has been going on for generations. The world used to be a much more dyi, less prepackaged place. Each generation does less and less for themselves. I see the difference between my father’s generation and my own as well as between my generation and later ones. Shit, my grandfather built his own fucking house.
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People once complained about people reading newspapers on public transit.
Nothing has actually changed.
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Everything has changed except human nature.
Your example shows how far cultural norms have shifted. Reading a paper around others is anti social in a culture where you are expected to interact with and give others your attention.
Each generation may react the same way to the new behaviors of the next generation, but that does mean those new behaviors do not form a consistent trend representing real change in the culture. In this case that trend is increasing individualism and weakening of community norms.
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People already didn’t pay attention to one another; the conplainer was just using a convenient scapegoat. It’s smartphones now. It’ll be neural implants next century.
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This sounds a lot like gripes that older generations have always had about younger generations.
But this younger generation is the youngest one yet!
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It does till you experience it, and think wtf. Like a sudden dropoff. So maybe all the phone bans across countries is a good thing.
I had a degreed engineer ask me to help them tally the count of screen objects because they kept losing track. There were just over 10 items. I told them they needed to discuss the issue with their manager because clearly that’s a problem.
A solution if you lose track while counting could be hand tally on paper, colour code the objects as you tally, use the system and select them all and read the selection count. But to call tech support for manual counting help is crazy.
- Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish3 months
I had a degreed engineer ask me to help them tally the count of screen objects because they kept losing track. There were just over 10 items. I told them they needed to discuss the issue with their manager because clearly that’s a problem.
Dude, that’s not someone who didn’t learn to count, that’s someone experiencing a cognitive issue or who has a learning disability. Don’t be a dick. Just count the things. Please use your intact senses and faculties to help others when you have the opportunity.
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I have a son with Down Syndrome so I know about learning disabilities. It wasn’t just that situation it was their whole approach to the job. As a hired engineer they get standardized training and then are expected to work on projects. This person (and many new recruits) would find that it was easier to call tech support, and then they’d ask us to complete the project and then and send the a file back. Thus me saying dude please talk with your manager.
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They get standardized training which does not accommodate their special needs and doesn’t train them for what to do when they have special needs that are not being reasonably addressed by their workplace.
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Actually I’m someone that has a panic disorder. Instead of getting reasonable accomodations, I’m punished for having panic attacks. I’m sure the boomers think it’s because I’m a weak-minded young person or whatever.
But go off.
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Dude, i gave the extreme example to illustrate, but I have watched the change. The new recruits want others do do the work for them when they get stuck. Like i mentioned in other replies ut wasnt isokated to counting, it was expectation.
My coworker was helping a guy who got stuck so was showing him the steps to solve instead of watching for next time he went on Insta. That’s not learning disabilities it is expectation that somebody else finds out the fix.
The person, as Engineer, asked IT to complete and engineering project for them, because they had another project due. Not only would that not be kosher for an engineering sign off, its also an ask that is ridiculous
- sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish3 months
Even in the context that the person couldn’t count easily called the it help desk, they could raise it as an accessibility issue.
And the fun thing is, disability is the one minority group that anybody can join, if something bad happens to them, and making things more accessibile for the disabled usually improves the lives of everyone! Like curb cuts and elevators helping parents with strollers in greater numbers than the wheelchairs they are designed for.
- Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish3 months
Disability can even be temporary. A mother who cannot put her child down experiences life with one arm and mobility issues. Accommodating disability helps everyone, as you say.
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That does sound extreme, but no more insane than older people who can’t complete basic tasks in a word professor application.
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I actually never understood that part. Like VCR clocks flashing. Especially when this lady exists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVI6SCtVu4c
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It’s not that they “can’t count to the teens”. The wording used in the OP was that they keep “losing track”. That’s very different and could suggest some kind of visual processing or attention issue rather than not understanding basic numeracy. Those kinds of issues are common intellectual disabilities that people can still succeed with if they find the right mechanisms to allow them to do the same tasks as other people.
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I was born just before the death of the floppy disk and the number of people I’ve met who can say “I bet you don’t know what’s that symbol is based on” while also not knowing it saves your work is the reason I’m in mental health instead of tech.
Stupid has nothing to do with age.
- doleo@lemmy.oneEnglish3 months
It’s not insane, it’s divergent. There could be many reasons behind it.
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Its one example, but the new engineers coming in expect people to solve their problem while they check their insta. Literally had my tech guy deployed to help a new engineer, as our guy demonstrates the software steps to solve the issue the guy needing help is doing personal social media checks… He though people just come do it for you when you get stuck. We have even had young supposed IT staff call in for support and they clearly have no skills on solving issues.
- doleo@lemmy.oneEnglish3 months
I think you might have replied to the wrong comment? I’m not sure how what you’ve posted is connected to what I wrote.
