Things That Are No Longer In Their Golden Age And Could Potentially Disappear From Our Lives In The Future
During a golden age, a particular field of activity, such as the arts or literature, reaches a high level of achievement. The growth rate eventually slows down, and it goes back to being irrelevant and potentially replaced with something else.
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The pace at which our world moves is too quick to catch up with anything. Humanity has achieved so much and advanced significantly in the last few decades alone.
The market currently provides an insane amount of gadgets, devices, and tools that help us throughout life.
However, time flies and the world changes at a fast pace. We appreciate the technological updates that make our lives even more comfortable but also often have to say goodbye to common things that ceased to exist anymore.
A Redditor who goes by the username u/pachungulo made a post on the r/AskReddit subReddit with the following question: "What are we NO LONGER in the golden age of?" The user received a lot of interesting replies to their question.
We tend to forget about such things and it's always refreshing to be reminded of how irrelevant some things are becoming. Scroll down to check out the full Reddit post, and scroll a little further to read the comments from the original post
1. "Reason, we are quickly devolving back into the Dark Ages where superstitions ran wild and the clergy dictated what is “truth”"
--random06
2. Ownership.
I feel like we all just rent, borrow, stream, digital download, or straight up just consume and rebuy low quality products.
--truci
3. "Shopping Malls, they are super dead and getting a little deader every day"
4. Journalism
God I hope future generations figure out how to distinguish between actual real factual news and media/entertainment/outrage bait/propaganda or else we're doomed.
5. Streaming
There was a blissful 10 years where basically everything was on one or two platforms. Now we've more or less re-invented television with the fracturing of media platforms (but on demand, which is still an improvement but come on, it was so nice for a while there).
--Notmiefault
6. "Democracy/Governance"
Government for the people by the people has slowly slipped away thanks to money/power in politics. Elections don't matter anymore, because the system is set up to corrupt whoever is in power.
--jayawir451
7. "Architecture."
At least not here in the UK, we seem to be obsessed with making loads of s****y carbon copy houses that haven't in the slightest got any character. Bring back locally sourced materials and good community layouts not these cold sack bollocks.
--bebivat845
8. "The middle class worker."
Wages relative to inflation have stagnated for years and the wealth gap is growing faster than ever. Further, this wealth has been used to tilt the scale even more towards those with means which accelerates the trend.
On top of the dismantling of protections and creation of even more inequalities through law, technology is playing a role too through automation which seems poised to send even more wealth up to those with the current means to develop and deploy new wave automation.
--xipiba2381
9. "Internet for sure."
Everything is way too centralized now and the majority of internet traffic goes to small number of sites. I miss forums and personal webpages. We should bring those back..
--Aaronnoraator
10. "Neighborhoods full of kids. I think the 90’s were peak."
11. Mobile games.
I mean Jesus f*****g Christ I'm a gamer, and I despise mobile gaming in its current form.
Micro transaction riddled ad displaying b******t apps
12. Society.
It's no longer about community and looking out for your neighbour. It's now normalised that to think "Screw everyone else, as long I get what I want".
13. Gig economy.
There was a brief moment when AirBnb and Uber was cheap, unique and awesome.
--jceez
14. China tea sets.
Same goes for Persian carpets and antique furniture. It used to be something that retained it's value and could be passed on for generations. Now it's out of fashion and worth shit.
My grandma had a small fortune worth of stuff in her house. Some Persian carpets had costed 50.000 dollars (and that was in 1970/80's money!). They went straight to the trash after she died, even auctioning them off wasn't worth the effort.
15. "Comedy movies. Honestly, what's the last blockbuster comedy movie you saw in a packed theater?"
--turns31
16. Fishing.
We've [took out] so many fish it's a f*****g tragedy. By some estimates we've [took out] 90% of the world's shark population alone. Reading old books and running into offhand comments about fishing is depressing as hell.
I love seafood, but we need like a decade-long commercial fishing hiatus followed by much stricter limits and better regulations. There are a bunch of really dumb rules right now; bycatch is wasted, for example. Let's get by on sport-caught and farmed seafood for a while and let the fishes come back.
Fishing now is nothing whatever like it was even fifty years ago. A century ago it was like another planet. And this is coming from a kiteboarder, somebody to whom sharks are a genuine threat.
17. YouTube.
Am i the only person who gets the same suggestions for way too long. for all the subscriptions i have i feel like my homepage should have more options.
18. Radio
Well, video killed the radio star.
Internet killed the video star.
Corporations killed the internet.
...and at this moment hubris is killing the corporations.
--[deleted]
19. "Halloween trick or treating."
I used to get anywhere from 25-50 kids to my door every year. Now I'm lucky if I see 10. People are not doing it anymore.
--Rukawork
20. House ownership
Now is a fantastic time to have bought a house a long time ago, isn't it!
--CFD330
21. CDs
--Inivieni
Physical media in general
Well, this was eye-opening. And heartbreaking.
A lot of things are not like they used to be, but that's just part of life. We will have new things that will also get to have their golden age, and then potentially disappear from our lives entirely.
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