20 Parts of Modern Life That Will Shock Future Generations

We think of the past as a brutal, barbaric place, and we’re not wrong. Those monsters routinely executed people for basically being impolite, lived in filth, ate flavorless mush, treated everyone without power like property and stuck leeches on you if you so much as had a cough they didn’t like. You were probably going to shit yourself to death. They didn’t even have hoses, so if you died outside, everyone just had to deal with your death shit.

But someday, we’re going to be the past. Future generations are going to learn about us and think, “How could anyone live like that?” If you’re old enough to remember a time before delivery McDonald’s and you’ve recently spoken to a youth, you know they already do. Which is why user SixandNoQuarter asked r/AskReddit, “What is the current thing (about which) future generations will say ‘I can’t believe they used to do that’?”