leftzero ,

I miss the good old times before rampant enshittification...

Patches ,

The 90s?

mods_are_assholes ,

You can talk shit all you want about fuel efficiency but fins on cars was the peak of pure automotive design.

And I will fight you over this.

ranoss ,

The gas, mileage sucked, but old cars definitely had more personality.
I hate that all the new cars look like every other car on the road.

Melt ,

When a house wasn't impossibly expensive and you have time and money to raise children?

lowleveldata ,

When you were young?

onion ,

Back then you could buy expensive products that were made to last. Today we can mostly choose between cheap products that don't last and expensive product that don't last either

humbletightband ,

Well.... there are actually a lot of things we could've taken from the old days. Atmosphere without excessive co2 for instance

Sylvartas ,

Also a planet without excessive billionaires. Somehow the modern tech moguls managed to make the robber barons sound tame in comparison

givesomefucks ,

The only thing we need to bring back to get them what they miss, is tax rates for corporations and the wealthiest.

It's just they've been manipulated into thinking that was the one bad part and all the shitty social issues were what made their lives better.

Hell, even the Democratic party if today doesn't want those tax rates, because some of that now goes to donations to them.

Both parties fight over social issues, and refuse to do anything about taxes.

So the people donating to both parties, never even have a chance to lose.

They bought the system, and it's irrational to pretend they haven't. Nothing will ever be fixed in America till we get money out of politics and tax the wealthy. It's like trying to save the environment by recycling and paper straws.

Sure "every little bit helps" but if we ignore all the big stuff and only do the little bits, we ain't gonna change enough

mods_are_assholes ,

Atmosphere without excessive co2 for instance

Not with 8 billion people in the world...

dustyData ,

Nostalgia is a trick of the mind to make you ignore the fact that one day you'll be dead and no one alive would remember that you even existed, and they'll go on as if nothing was lost.

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