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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9083129" data-attributes="member: 22779">I did not grow up without a computer.  We had our Atari 400 when I was about 8 years old.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  With a tape drive.  LOL.  16k memory.  Good grief, my watch has more computing power now.Again, when I said things are going to be bad, I didn't mean in a "fall of civilization" way.  Just that there will be a lot of upheaval in the next decade or two, similar to what we saw in the 80's with so many people being forced to change jobs.  Overall?  Life is FAR better than it was fifty years ago.  I mean, in every measurable way.  Life expectancy, health, food, you name it, we have it better than our parents and certainly our grandparents did.  Heck, I live in a country that hasn't fought a single war in almost three generations now.  Worldwide, poverty, hunger, etc.  All better than we were fifty years ago.  Things are better now than they ever have been.But, all that being said, that doesn't mean it's better for everyone.  Given the choice of going to a modern hospital or going to someone who "learned skills at the lake", I'll take the hospital thanks.  You can have your pocket watch.  That's groovy.  My dollar store watch keeps just as good time and will likely last far longer.  Mass produced stuff ends up in landfills, not because it's easily broken, but, because it's so much higher quality that it never breaks.  It's just cheaper to throw it away and get a new one.</blockquote>

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