Society has undergone drastic changes over the past decades. Technological advancements andshifted valueshave led many to believe things may be taking a turn for the worse.These changes also ignited a recentReddit discussion, with someone asking, “What worrisome trend in society are you beginning to notice?” People got candid about the alarmingevolutionof artificial intelligence andoverconsumptionwhile pointing out the decay in moral values.It’s quite a gloomy topic to open up but aneye-opener, nonetheless. Scroll through to find the readers' responses, and feel free to chime in below.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Society has undergone drastic changes over the past decades. Technological advancements andshifted valueshave led many to believe things may be taking a turn for the worse.
These changes also ignited a recentReddit discussion, with someone asking, “What worrisome trend in society are you beginning to notice?” People got candid about the alarmingevolutionof artificial intelligence andoverconsumptionwhile pointing out the decay in moral values.
It’s quite a gloomy topic to open up but aneye-opener, nonetheless. Scroll through to find the readers' responses, and feel free to chime in below.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
The sheer lack of empathy people have now. It’s genuinely startling.
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The absence of critical thinking in any sphere of influence.
Instead of helping someone in need, whip out that phone camera and record it.
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”.
Wages are not keeping up with prices.
Overconsumption.
We don’t own anything. Everything is subscription.
Illiteracy- it’s an actual pandemic.
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.
The lack of common manners like please and thank you.
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.
Death of Expertise. Everyone’s opinion is now valid.
AI starting to use AI as a source.
The rejection of evidence-based science.
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.
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.
Me-ism. It’s become all about what someone wants, everyone else can go to hell.
Every damn person in the U.S. is expecting you to tip them.
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.
Social media making people feel like their lives are “less than.”.
The embracing of ignorance, trolling and being uneducated.
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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We’ve become society of achievement, depression and burn out are becoming prevalent, everyone has to achieve and if you don’t, then you’re loser.
Increased use of disposable products and lack of efforts to recycle, reduce, and re-use. People just put stuff in the trash bin and it magically disappears.
I think the internet is driving us insane as a species and we are starting to make really bad decisions from the bottom to the top because of it. we are all heavily addicted to our devices and science has clearly shown this has SEVERE adverse effects to our overall mental health.
Here’s a concerning trend I’ve noticed:the growing disconnect between people and genuine human connections. Young adults are experiencing increased loneliness, while everything, including relationships, has become disposable and monetized.The rise of social media addiction across all age groups has led to a decline in real-world social skills and in-person interactions. When emergencies happen, people now instinctively reach for their phones to record rather than help.What’s particularly troubling is the decline in empathy.People are quick to mock others’ misfortunes rather than show compassion, often using phrases like “f**k around and find out” instead of offering support. This lack of emotional intelligence makes many societal issues exponentially worse.The subscription-based model taking over everything from software to car features, combined with rising wealth inequality, means fewer people can truly own things anymore - from homes to digital media. We’re becoming perpetual renters in an increasingly disposable world.
The Dunning Kruger effect has never been so observable on a global basis. So many people think that their 20 minute Google research makes them more knowledgeable on a subject than those who have dedicated their adult life to it.
I feel like people are starting to lose the ability to have actual, meaningful conversations. 😬 It’s like everything is either an argument or super surface-level small talk. Social media plays a huge part, I think everyone’s so quick to jump on trends, cancel someone, or just share their hot takes without really thinking things through.It’s worrying because we’re all connected more than ever, but at the same time, it feels like we’re drifting further apart. Like, can we just chill, listen to each other, and not immediately try to “win” every discussion? 😅.
Everyone’s opinion matters.
Increasing stress, anxiety, and depression are becoming normalized, especially among younger generations.
Rapidly reduced common civility.
Housing affordability.
How stupid people are.
Lack of compassion for disabled people.
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Sephora for kids.
Acceptance of obesity.Whatever they say, I continue to see people support obese people and tell them to accept themselves as they are when that is dangerous and leads to health problems.I don’t understand how years ago, in the mid-2000’s we all agreed that models and extremely thin people (bulimia/anorexia) were a problem and how there should be a change but currently we accept obesity and even some praise it but do not realize that anorexia/bulimia and obesity are two sides of the same coin: eating problems.
A generalized increasing sympathy for authoritarianism, in people of all political stripes, and particularly in young people.
More people are rude. .
Probably not so new, but the complete lack of consideration for privacy. Take photos of your trip, share special moments you had in public, but leave the public out of focusLike those trends where people take pictures and/or videos of a random stranger somewhere and post them online without consent to bash them for what they’re wearing or what they’re doing. Let people just live their lives without fear of judgement.
People not living life for the enjoyment of it, more for social media.I was in Portugal last week. Went past the beach and it was around 17 Celsius and sunny. Not hot, not cold. There was a young girl in Bikini doing her thing recording videos and taking pics while her miserable looking, fully dressed boyfriend sat on a towel. Afterwards she put her phone away, threw on several layers of clothing and f****d off. Obviously she was just there to brag about how hot it is and how great the beach is for her social media even though it wasn’t really true.
We shrug off the real problems we are not meant to notice because they are too difficult to solve, and or some of us profit off some of them so we don’t want it stopped.
Social media will destroy us. We will live in “Black Mirror” future.
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