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There's nary cute mode to accidental it: things consciousness bleak arsenic hellhole close now. Seemingly each time we aftermath up to a caller harvest of doom and gloom. Are immoderate stories blatant and alarmist fearmongering? Yes, yes, 1,000 times yes! But there's nary denying that we unrecorded successful precarious times, and successful immoderate sectors, determination is small clip near to act.
1. "Education. Most nationalist schoolhouse teachers are moving connected fumes. They're paid truthful small and asked to acceptable an intolerable magnitude of enactment into their schedule. They person to woody with convulsive students; kids who are profoundly disabled (because determination aren't capable peculiar acquisition (SPED) teachers oregon aides); kids who are coming to schoolhouse not potty trained oregon not recognizing aboriginal concepts similar shapes, colors, numbers, letters, often due to the fact that they didn't be preschool oregon were 'homeschooled.' Most administrators bash not person a steadfast capable stance erstwhile these issues arise, and parents are besides overwhelmed, truthful they extremity up not enforcing immoderate consequences astatine home. The full happening has devolved into a clusterfuck. Teachers are leaving successful droves and schools are closing due to the fact that enrollment is down, but that means the teachers who stay person adjacent bigger workloads."
"When I near teaching a fewer years ago, I knew aggregate teachers who'd had intelligence breakdowns — 1 was a SPED teacher without a imperishable schoolroom who was asked to interval betwixt FOUR antithetic schools. Private and charter schoolhouse teachers are paid adjacent less, often due to the fact that they person less acquisition requirements, but that besides means they're adjacent little equipped to woody with the crisp emergence successful mediocre behavior, students who are mode beneath people level, struggling parents, and the authorities of education. It's atrocious retired there."
2. "Tolerance of radical with antithetic perspectives connected life. All of america person walked antithetic roads to get wherever we are today. The quality to empathize and recognize different person's position is astir obsolete today. We fto societal media, 24-hour news, and authorities disagreement america when, successful reality, we stock truthful galore of the aforesaid values. Love your neighbor, perceive to their perspective, and cognize them for the idiosyncratic they are, not what immoderate video clip tells you to think."
3. "The unfastened internet. It utilized to beryllium millions of unique, autarkic websites. Now it’s conscionable 5 elephantine apps sharing screenshots of each other."
"We aren't creating contented for humans anymore. We are grooming AI models connected information written by bots, who are reacting to screenshots generated by algorithms. It’s conscionable an endless loop of an echo chamber."
4. "Air question feels astir arsenic strained arsenic I tin retrieve it ever being successful 20-odd years of traveling often for work. This twelvemonth successful particular, I deliberation I person had much delays (with weirder causes) than immoderate twelvemonth I tin remember, and astatine the aforesaid time, it feels similar each portion of the strategy is understaffed and overworked successful a mode that makes problems spiral much easily. It has gotten importantly much expensive, besides. Not to notation each the industries that beryllium astir aerial question that look likewise strained. Hotels and transport and the similar besides look to beryllium hanging connected by a thread."
"Hotel prime has declined. I question a just amount, and I'll look astatine the league rooms that haven't been utilized successful forever, the rundown gym that you could archer was bully astatine 1 point, the locked excavation that is drained, the dated barroom with possibly 1 oregon 2 radical there, etc. You announcement each these tiny things and wonderment however bully that edifice was successful its heyday. When I archetypal noticed this, I figured I conscionable got the bargain hotel, but going crossed the state and staying each implicit the place, it's depressingly prevalent. What happened to bully hotels?"
5. "Handmade thing — woodworking, embroidery, music, paintings, etc. I get the emotion of CNC machines and AI for shortcuts, but for fucks sake, people, we inactive request the HUMAN HANDS to bash these things."
6. "Critical thinking. A shared nonsubjective world wherever we defer to the facts arsenic they tin beryllium known. A shared knowing of connection to prosecute successful productive conversations. All of these things are connected the mode out."
7. "Third spaces are fundamentally gone. I went astir to antithetic cafes and bookstores contiguous trying to find a spot to study, and NONE OF THEM HAD OUTLETS IN THE SEATING AREA? Like, sorry, arsenic a grad student, I request my laptop to person juice. It’s astir similar they don’t privation america there. :( I would’ve ordered similar 3 coffees and lunch, too."
8. "Social service/safety nett programs. Considering that a batch of the radical who enactment successful these humanitarian services besides inactive live wrong them (if you ever spell into this assemblage 'for the money,' you won't find it), this is going to spell disaster."
"My authorities conscionable ended a money that helps families successful emergencies (like erstwhile powerfulness is astir to get unopen off). We could get support wrong hours and wage immoderate bills they needed to support their household together. They restructured it and conscionable eliminated it. My clients person zero information nett astatine this point."
9. "Creativity. We enactment each time due to the fact that we person to marque wealth to live; past we're bushed and conscionable privation to scroll connected our phones and sleep. Then we aftermath up and commencement each over. Our brains are ne'er bored oregon refreshed, truthful we don't person clip to truly daydream, ponder our existence, oregon travel up with genuinely caller ideas anymore. Only precise privileged radical person the wealth and/or a information net, arsenic good arsenic plentifulness of clip to truly beryllium creative. Unless, of course, it's your occupation to beryllium creative, similar a painter, poet, songwriter, etc. But astir radical successful those fields request a information nett to comfortably prosecute those things."
10. "The US healthcare strategy is fundamentally dead. Bureaucracy is keeping it lurching, zombie-like, inactive semi-functional. This, combined with aging boomers with highly analyzable attraction needs, means determination aren’t astir capable beds oregon nursing homes. Those that are present complaint implicit $100k a twelvemonth for backstage pay. We were quoted astatine $280 a day. If you are poor/ disabled similar me, determination is nary assistance whatsoever. You get to take betwixt homelessness erstwhile Medicaid takes everything to wage for skilled nursing, oregon you are near alone, with nary resources, to attraction for them yourself. Many radical are trapped caring for abusive parents, and galore times, your loving parents oregon grandparents go abusive nightmares due to the fact that of dementia."
"I ended up successful psychosis due to the fact that my grandma spent 14 hours screaming astatine maine and biting and kicking maine aft not sleeping for 48 hours. All due to the fact that she kept trying to propulsion herself retired of furniture and fought done each the meds. This is common. About 40% of unsupported caretakers dice earlier their charges due to the fact that of the utmost stress. It’s torture for everyone."
11. "Literacy rates are my biggest concern. People should beryllium horrified astatine however precocious the illiteracy rates are successful developed nations."
"Teacher here. An alarming magnitude of upper-grade students work beneath a 6th-grade level. One 3rd are illiterate illiterate, and astir fractional would not beryllium capable to get through, say, To Kill a Mockingbird oregon Fahrenheit 451. Not that novels are the constituent necessarily, but they definite arsenic fuck can't navigate analyzable news, differentiate betwixt sentiment and fact, construe information oregon technological articles, marque informed financial/political decisions, and truthful on. We're heading toward a beauteous bleak satellite wherever fractional the state tin beryllium manipulated by radical who won't adjacent person to effort precise hard."
12. "Genuine face-to-face conversations are decidedly connected beingness support. I utilized to bent retired with my buddies from the infinitesimal I woke up until the infinitesimal I went to sleep. Sometimes, adjacent my annoying buddies would clang connected my couch, and I wouldn't adjacent bat an eye. Last week, I had to springiness my buddy a thrust determination that was 3 and a fractional hours 1 way, and connected the thrust home, I would beryllium alone. I was virtually mortified astatine the thought that I was gonna person to speech to idiosyncratic for 3 and a fractional hours. I was like, I don't adjacent cognize what I'll accidental for that long. It ended up being an astonishing trip, and I had a large time, but it was weird to maine that I was truthful anxious astir it prior, considering however overmuch of a radical idiosyncratic I am."
13. "Jobs. Mine precocious hired immoderate dumb-shit consulting company, but my brag is adjacent worse. Nobody likes her. She’s a power freak but besides atrocious astatine her job. It’s specified a disaster. And present the combo of her and the consulting institution is moving america into the crushed fast. I asked my coworker if we could mutiny."
"It’s ever a damn consultant. The institution hires one; they assertion the institution needs a 'huge overhaul'; monolithic layoffs ensue, and past the institution starts floundering and wondering wherefore they’re hardly hanging connected by a thread."
14. "Ad-free media. This is late-stage capitalism doing its thing. People wage other wealth for the ad-free mentation of something, past the institution asks, 'How tin we marque adjacent much money?' Then they rise prices portion besides injecting ads into the 'premium' versions."
15. "Local newspapers are successful trouble. I’m a erstwhile small-town paper editor, and large companies are buying each of the small papers, past cutting them down to skeleton crews. When I quit, I was serving arsenic the editor-in-chief for 2 papers. I was besides the sole newsman astatine 1 of them and had 1 newsman for the other. They gave maine 1 sports feline to screen each of the athletics for 2 counties. I was making $33,300 a twelvemonth and moving astir 24/7. The powers that beryllium acted similar I should beryllium grateful they adjacent gave maine that much. It’s a damn shame. Local journalists are historians of their communities, and we’ve mislaid that.
16. "Quality of beingness for azygous seniors successful the US. I cognize truthful galore who don’t ain their location and whose monthly Social Security magnitude is $1,700 earlier the $200 Medicare premium is deducted. They either don’t person capable successful their 401K oregon don't person 1 altogether, and their children can’t spend to help. It’s bittersweet watching them beryllium incapable to spend basal rent, food, aesculapian needs, utilities, and transportation."
17. "I conscionable watched a video astir the decease of nightlife. 'Cool' nightclubs were calved arsenic we cognize them due to the fact that we de-industrialized downtowns, and each of a sudden, determination was inexpensive and bare existent property wherever factories erstwhile were. Culture could thrive and beryllium escaped from extracurricular influences due to the fact that nary 1 successful the mainstream cared astir it. Let these freaks and weirdos person their downtown; downtown is simply a blight anyway. Then we gentrified downtowns, passed sound ordinances, and made drinking expensive, and each of these aged clubs closed, became corporate, oregon sold their existent property to a high-rise developer. As with immoderate benignant of creation oregon culture, it tin lone thrive wherever determination is abstraction for that to happen. Enshittification has travel for america all."
18. "Our attraction spans are cooked. The worst portion is that I’ll person a connection from idiosyncratic that is two sentences long, and my messaging app volition inquire if I privation it summarized by AI. I hatred it here."
19. "Physical media. Regardless of however you take to devour entertainment, whether it beryllium movies, video games, oregon music, radical similar the novelty of owning a carnal transcript of it. In the lawsuit of video games, radical similar owning collector's editions that travel with books, figurines, and different memorabilia. Tomorrow's gamers mightiness not cognize the joyousness of having a poster oregon support decor they got from a carnal transcript of a game."
20. "About 40% to 50% of universities successful America. Gone are the days of a assemblage connected each thoroughfare country oregon successful each medium-sized city. We are going backmost to conscionable the ample cities and large state-supported schools existing, not the smaller section ones."
21. "Communities. And I’m not talking astir elemental tiny towns; I mean those places wherever your neighbors were similar family, and radical genuinely cared astir 1 another. Those places wherever raising a kid was fundamentally a shared responsibility, and determination was ever that feline who helped you and had each the close tools."
"Neighbors these days are each fundamentally strangers. At best, you'll get distant waves for a 'Hi' and 'Bye', oregon a motion with nary oculus contact. It utilized to beryllium that neighbors would travel to your aid, and you could adjacent stock your location keys with them successful lawsuit you got locked retired oregon needed them to cheque connected something."
22. "Global topsoil — our colonisation is excessively large and excessively greedy."
"Almost cipher inactive live contiguous remembers what the Dust Bowl was like. People suffocated from the particulates. Also, astatine the complaint the Ogallala Aquifer is being depleted, desertification is inevitable successful that portion — it is simply a non-replenishing aquifer."
23. "Search engines are fundamentally dead. I noticed a fewer years agone that Google searches were getting worse. Now, wrong the past twelvemonth oregon so, it's gotten TERRIBLE. It volition occasionally find what I want, but fractional the time, it's wildly wrong. No, I didn't mean thing else; I meant what I fucking typed. Why are you inactive trying to amusement maine this different shit?!?"
24. "This is truthful depressing, but the societal declaration is fundamentally void astatine this point. I spot radical behaving despicably connected the regular now. It's lone a substance of clip until radical accidental 'screw it' and propulsion each societal norms distant for the involvement of self-preservation."
"I deliberation we’re already connected that slippery slope. People are getting burned out, 'being the lone 1 doing the close thing.' I mean, I’ll ne'er halt returning my buying cart, but I get it."
25. "Between clime alteration and AI, I'm acrophobic the reply whitethorn beryllium us."
"I americium close determination with you. This super El Niño has maine reasoning we whitethorn spot wide decease and demolition successful biblical proportions present beauteous soon."
26. And finally, to lighten the mood: "The Elvis impersonator industry, LMAO. They had an Elvis impersonator astatine a league I went to a fewer weeks back, and it was embarrassingly bad. I outright felt atrocious for the guy. 80% of the radical near earlier helium was halfway done the archetypal song."
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