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What’s a modern habit in america that everyone has normalised that future generations will look back on negatively?

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toomanyracistshere@reddit

Overworking, I hope.
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notapoliticalalt@reddit

Definitely hustle culture and the fealty we have towards companies.
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Few-Wrongdoer-5296@reddit

Thankfully I think this is starting to go away, but the establishment is going to fight it with everything they have.
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ENovi@reddit

I agree that it’s starting to go away I think that’s largely due to how absurd it got. It’s one thing to offer such banal advice as “Get disciplined by building a routine” or “Don’t frivolously spend beyond your means” but when people started getting Instagram memes with shit like “6 habits to become a successful sigma millionaire” imposed over a screenshot from Peaky Blinders it clearly lost the plot and normal people started making fun of it. Now look, I’m not saying mockery and bullying is a good thing. It clearly isn’t. What I am saying though is that if enough people see something that stupid and say “What the hell is this dumb bullshit? Are you really getting financial advice from memes and Romanian sex offenders? Did you recently suffer a traumatic head injury?” it’ll start to fade from the zeitgeist. I’m not even knocking the people who fell into it. I get wanting to be financially secure and the reason we need trusted friends and family members is because we all have blind spots. It’s why we ask our partners if the shirt we’re wearing looks good or ask a friend for advice on what to do with a difficult situation at work. Sometimes that same idea gets projected on a wider scale. In this case it could be a 19 year old seeing how widely mocked the whole thing is and he thinks twice before investing half of his student loan into $asscoin or into a startup where he dropships some non FDA approved herbal supplement from Cambodia or whatever. Fortunately hustle culture got so absurd so fast that it couldn’t be taken seriously by enough people to survive. Probably saved a lot of people years of hardship and I am absolutely dreading the next dumbass thing that’s coming down the pipeline.
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MajesticBread9147@reddit

Maybe not everyone, but I really hope the delegitimization of education and experts stops.
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Tejanisima@reddit

TIL that SME can mean subject-matter expert
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MajesticBread9147@reddit

It's quite common in everyday parlance at least where I live.
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Tejanisima@reddit

I'm an educator with a terminal degree — in other words, arguably an SME myself — and never saw this abbreviation in my life so far as I know.
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LobsterNo3435@reddit

Posting kids on social media.
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Thausgt01@reddit

Driving for distances less than a mile. But then again, the layouts of far too many cities make it extremely difficult to live within a 15-minute walk of work, groceries, school, *and* multiple entertainment/socializing locations.
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AwakenedDreamer__44@reddit

Digital gambling?
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Few-Wrongdoer-5296@reddit

Yes, this. You can't get away from it and it's only growing despite every study that comes out coming to the same universally negative conclusions.
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Ok_Orchid1004@reddit

Nose picking
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Fooby56@reddit

Crazy that nobody thought of this until the mid 80s
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hardworkinglatinx@reddit

Bot posts.
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Just-a-nerd2@reddit

Excessive water usage
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dough_eating_squid@reddit

Wrapping everything in plastic
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hakohead@reddit

Not recycling. Less blame on the individual and more on the trash handling system. In a lot of places, even if the household separates their trash for recycling, the trucks will just take it and throw it in with everything else anyway
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KiwiTabicks@reddit

Posting on Reddit.
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TXSyd@reddit

Digital textbooks. I’ll die on this hill.
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Brave_Speaker_8336@reddit

My guess would be eating meat. I’m not vegetarian fwiw lol
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BUBBAH-BAYUTH@reddit

The 24 hour news cycle
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Few-Wrongdoer-5296@reddit

Overconsumption of useless consumer goods
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AmittaiD@reddit

Vaping.
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