Strangely enough, I almost never see fidget spinners anymore, and I work with kids. I do keep having to pick cigarette butts off the ground tho (not from the kids).
I dunno… I can look back at native Americans before whitey showed up or further back to hunter-gatherers and think they had it pretty easy compared to now. They didn’t spend 8+ hours a day, every day working at a thing that’s meaningless; they didn’t have mortgages or bills; they didn’t have traffic; or ads, or any number of the dumb ass things we’ve made harder in the effort of making things easier.
I’d take a lack of medicine and the possibility of being eaten by wild animals over all the modern bullshit that makes it impossible to just live.
And great depression thing … and then the world war 2 thing … and the Spanish flu and world war 1 only about a decade before.
You can imagine a future person looking at a video of someone with a fidget spinner and thinking “life really was easy back then.”
Every generation has different luxuries and problems.
Guess you don’t have to try hard to sell a product if people are addicted to it, be they cigarettes or fidget spinners.
Strangely enough, I almost never see fidget spinners anymore, and I work with kids. I do keep having to pick cigarette butts off the ground tho (not from the kids).
My daughter has dozens of the things, but she also has ADHD and anxiety and they help her focus.
Some corp: “Nobody wants to smoke anymore.”
I dunno… I can look back at native Americans before whitey showed up or further back to hunter-gatherers and think they had it pretty easy compared to now. They didn’t spend 8+ hours a day, every day working at a thing that’s meaningless; they didn’t have mortgages or bills; they didn’t have traffic; or ads, or any number of the dumb ass things we’ve made harder in the effort of making things easier.
I’d take a lack of medicine and the possibility of being eaten by wild animals over all the modern bullshit that makes it impossible to just live.
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