20 Parts of Modern Life That Will Shock Future Generations

‘People going to prison over marijuana’
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’?”

SmartPriceCola 10mo ago Boys with those broccoli hair styles
lamatest1 10mo ago Edited 10mo ago Hopefully file your own taxes. It's needlessly complicated. (USA)
theisntist 10mo ago Buying bottled water from another continent.
HairyChest69 10mo ago Edited 10mo ago Pollute the shit out of our Oceans
Stummi 10mo ago The way we treat cancer, hopefully.
lollidahl 10mo ago Dialysis. If you know the process, it's gruesome and medieval.
SpaceCowBoyGid 10mo ago Working 5 days a week hopefully.
BoomerQuest 10mo ago This is wishful thinking but, post their entire fucking lives onto the Internet.
NoVicesJustLife 10mo ago Hopefully things like school shootings will become something we only talk about in past tense. We'll look at a graph over time, and this time period is just a weird uptick amidst a big downward trend.
ScyllaOfTheDepths 10mo ago They used to send people to prison for life for for having a little bit of weed?! Overheard from a Gen z. It's already happening.
Awkward_Bee5450 10mo ago Donating plasma just to buy groceries because your 40+ hours a week job barely pays your bills. (I hope this is something completely unheard of in the future.)
comicalben 10mo ago Growing a lawn of one type of grass with no other plants, fertilizing and watering it to grow, and then mowing it back down, pulling out flowers which have been arbitrarily called weeds all to maintain a flat green rectangle with nothing else on it.
VoluptuousSloth 10mo ago I'm not even a vegetarian, but I think that our grandkids will be horrified by how we got our meat (this assumes that lab grown meat keeps advancing)
Difficult-Lion-1288 10mo ago I really think a long time from now we'll view how we treat animals pretty distastefully. Elephants bury their dead and can paint, dolphins have language and some are growing thumbs. They're clearly more sentient then we give them credit for and we use our lack of understanding of consciousness to justify it.
apostate456 10mo ago Edited 10mo ago (For the USA) I'm really hoping they'll be horrified that healthcare was for profit and many people paid for cancer treatments through popularity contests online.... Вс
julia_is_confused . 10mo ago the way the mental health system treats psych patients in hospitals and programs when you have severe symptoms. you'll get drugged up and the whole experience is pretty traumatizing. it's also quite surprising how little people in hospitals actually know about mental health. it's not always specific people either, it's just the system as a whole. getting sent home in the middle of a mental health crisis because your insurance cuts out. or losing a bed in a program because someone is worse than you. being in hospitals really makes you rate everyone's symptoms and how
INTP36 10mo ago Edited 10mo ago The incessant inundation of marketing in our daily lives. Our technology gathers our data to tailor ads to sell us more useless trash. Your tv records you so people in an office somewhere can socially engineer ways to sell you another tv. We see something like ~5000+ advertisements a day, they're still trying to put big ads in the night sky, it's far too much and the future will consider us barbaric for allowing it.
LizardPossum 10mo ago Being in places with no cell/internet signal. I lived in a small town where there was almost no signal until recently but I'm seeing fewer and fewer places where that is the case.
wwwangels 10mo ago Drive your own car, especially when drunk. Now, this is way, way in the future, but I can imagine a bunch of laughing drunk college students stumbling into their self-driving car and saying, OMG, how did they do it back in the old days? I can barely walk straight. The correct answer would be, they died. That's how they did it in the old days, they died.
 10mo ago Toilet paper. I can't wait for the 3 shells

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