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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

idk adults said that to kids when i was younger. if you mean "young people" as in "young adults like under 30", then maybe. "it's just a phase" was also common. (the "phases" turned out to go like 20 years with most ppl i knew)

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Everyone kept telling me that I would become more conservative with age, and that once I got a job in the "real world," and started paying taxes, then my priorities would change (presumably to lowering taxes?).

Literally the opposite has happened.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

yeah, resonable taxes aren't so bad. i often think there should be gigantic taxes on things like fossil fuels and plastic packaging. whatever happened to cream in milk cartons? it's all plastic now 😤

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I remember most older people appearing "normal" when I was younger. But now that I'm almost 40 most of my peers seem unapologeticaly unhinged. Not fitting into what our parents thought as non-weird at all.

Actually, maybe kids these days see me as "perfectly normal old guy", and it's just a generational divide.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Norms have changed tons over my nearly half century years here.