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What’s the saddest fact of modern civilization?

1509 sats \ 18 comments \ @stack_harder 28 Jan AskSN

so many to pick from!

i think one of the saddest facts is that housing has become an investment piggybank and as a result young people are getting hard for socialism again.

what do you stackers think?

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83 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aardvark 28 Jan

I don't know if it's the saddest, but I think humanity is more disconnected from each other than they have ever been before.

9 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 28 Jan

Mine was going to be a variant of this:

Young people spend very little time hanging out with friends or having romantic relationships.

It's a social wasteland.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 28 Jan

It's a social wasteland

I really like that description. But yes, I totally agree with that.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 28 Jan

ironic that the more digital connection, the less real human connection

9 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 28 Jan

We stopped looking at the future with eyes brimming with optimism and dream like we used to.

Society seems to have a feeling like there's nothing more to explore, explain, discover, so the world has lost its element of mystery and mysticism.

23 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 28 Jan

The new generation thinking that socialism is good, l just cant believe how daft they are. Because they are living in a priveleged environment, they dont realize how good they have it.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 28 Jan

socialism always has a generational wave it seems. i think a lot of young people are getting pulverized by rent and feeling so fed up that the natural instinct is to say it's unfair and want to smash landlords and eat the rich etc. then it's reinforced with social media.

really, they should be stacking but they're too busy no having a clue how money works

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @clr 28 Jan

I agree. I want to add that landlords should also be stacking instead of using houses as SoV.

32 sats \ 1 reply \ @NovaRift 28 Jan

I strongly believe it's terrorism and the fact that this problem might never be solved. And it is all kinds of terrorism, like governments terrorizing their citizens to a group terrorizing people.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 28 Jan

i think terrorism to some extent has always existed, but with different methods and scales. usually, the government acts like a big terrorist, then creates backlashes that are also branded terrorists.

42 sats \ 4 replies \ @ama 28 Jan

I agree about the housing problem caused by the neo-liberalism, which comes from the corruption of politicians by international corporations and funds, like BlackRock, which are buying a large proportion of houses all over the world to speculate with.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @stack_harder OP 28 Jan

we have a fiat-induced housing affordability problem in the UK (as in most places i think), but luckily we don't have something like BlackRock buying up units to speculate

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 28 Jan

Hopefully the UK can resist their invasion of your leaving spaces by the giant US corporations, like BR, to extract all value from people. Alas, governments in other countries welcome those giants with the poor excuse that its money that comes into the country in the form of investments. In actuality, is money that goes out in the form of huge profits at the expenses of people finding places to live affordably. 21st-century slaves don't wear shackles, they pay mortgages, and more and more often, abusive rents.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 28 Jan

right there, eh

74 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 28 Jan

emphatically not the reasons, but yeah -- directionally right

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LowK3y19 28 Jan

We keep killing the planet and no one seems to care

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 28 Jan

we don't know what parts of our history are misinformation and what parts are outright lies.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @galt 28 Jan

That government-sponsored mass murder is good for the economy, from every angle you look at it the State is the terrorist, criminal organization that steals, lies and kills for a living