[NicolasGorden]

I find it interesting that when I was growing up, the person who invented the typing notification feature would have presented it as an achievement.

Now these articles start with him taking the 'blame'.

It feels so... like a new world... where most people are offended and angry by every tiny little annoyance of modern life. Where being angry and pessimistic is almost fashionable. Complaining about life, feeling hopeless, prophesizing disaster and externalizing problems is something people do to 'brag'.

I feel schools should include a decent amount of volunteering with people who have real problems. Maybe that way the next generation won't be so quick to focus on the negative. We're living in the best of times by all objective measurements.

[rsynnott]

Being annoyed by small things isn’t a recent invention. For instance, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They%27ll_Do_It_Every_Time

[dudul]

I'm pretty sure every single generation in History thought they were the greatest generation in History.

[rsynnott]

And that the one after was the worst. Moaning about the youth today goes back to at least the ancient Greeks.

Moaning about the one before is also popular. I have a pet theory that the reason that we hear so much about the offences of the boomers and millennials is that leadership positions are mostly gen x right now (when did you last hear anything about gen x?) In a couple of decades everyone will be complaining about gen x and gen z, instead.