🤣. You are whining about something you don't like right now. This is a really common 'genx subreddit' trait actually. I'm on the border of millennial, I think ideas about generations are way overstated.

The only significant sociatal way of life difference I see in people is who grew up before the Internet (especially on the phones) and had different lives as a result of that, but that's the only big way of life difference between someone born in 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985 and someone born in 1995 or 2005.

But it's chill, don't worry, self awareness has been mostly culturally absent since the boomers at least.

The only way to convincingly argue that position is to not participate in whining about stuff like that at all, so it's inherently contradictory to do so in this way especially. But seems to be irresistible from the posts I see on this sub. It's like when a society of people is in this excessively comfortable state which was throughout all of human history a non existent thing until the past 70 years of modernity outside of some aristocracy, they tend to become more focused on things like how they feel and how dissatisfied they are. I do know plenty of people from all the various generations that don't do that as well but then again isn't some generation specific subreddit like a magnet for people that do want to do that?

One of the biggest parts of that tendency is overemphasizing how much some cohort or generation differentiated itself from the rest, and is therefore special in some way. I see older millennials do it too now and I imagine that's just part of growing old in the relative luxury we all continue to enjoy.

The greatest generation faced things like real tangible risk of starvation and we have an obesity epidemic even among poor people to put things in perspective.

We have massive problems, for sure, but we don't fully comprehend the sort of precarity that we once faced universally as a species outside of whatever that eras aristocracy was up to.

Now we are all 'the aristocrats' in a world where people still starve to death but are far away in other countries that make all our stuff for us or extract the stuff that makes that stuff for pennies a day.