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We’re kinda spoiled with “all the X we could want, whenever we want”.

  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    The user you replied to is repeating a fairly well known and old quote, not directly arguing that children behave as servants. It’s a quote that gets used a lot in discussions about “kids these days”, the point of sharing it is usually to demonstrate that adults have always said this about children, and thus also to imply that the kids really haven’t gotten significantly worse in the present generation, people just think they have because they remember themselves or previous generations as kids through the lens of nostalgia or such.

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s more that most of us don’t remember ourselves as kids.

      I remember myself as a kid, I was an asshole. My friends were assholes. We were only slightly restrained by the fact that we had no internet so our assholery was contained withing the limited physical space we could access.