Re:What is ‘elite overproduction’?
by watwut on Friday August 20, 2021 @09:10AM
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> When successive generations complain about "kids these days", there is a contradiction.
There is absolutely no contradiction, because in fact they are complaining about different things. Sometimes they are complaining about kids being more violent then they used to be. Other times they are complaining about kids being more rude, more passive, more drinking. Then they complain about kids dont more sport, less sport, reading too much, not reading enough.
If you abstract it away to "kids are bad", then yes, it sounds as if the complain was constantly the same. But that abstraction is manipulative.
> Tellingly, no one ever says "kids these days are much better behaved than we were as kids", even when it's empirically true.
I have in fact said that multiple times. The "no one ever says" part is not true either.
Yes, people are more likely to comment on negatives that affect them then on positives. That is true about literally anything, including software updates. And that still does not imply that every complain about bad software update should be shut down.
There is absolutely no contradiction, because in fact they are complaining about different things. Sometimes they are complaining about kids being more violent then they used to be. Other times they are complaining about kids being more rude, more passive, more drinking. Then they complain about kids dont more sport, less sport, reading too much, not reading enough.
If you abstract it away to "kids are bad", then yes, it sounds as if the complain was constantly the same. But that abstraction is manipulative.
> Tellingly, no one ever says "kids these days are much better behaved than we were as kids", even when it's empirically true.
I have in fact said that multiple times. The "no one ever says" part is not true either.
Yes, people are more likely to comment on negatives that affect them then on positives. That is true about literally anything, including software updates. And that still does not imply that every complain about bad software update should be shut down.