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What are we doing today that is considered "normal" but will be considered taboo in 50+ years? (1 Viewer)
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Politician Spock
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Your health insurance being tied to your employer.
Koya
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How we have created factories to kill animals to eat (and how much is wasted to boot).
Protecting the interests of the .1% at the expense of everyone else while implementing fiscal policies which mortgage future generations.
This one's more out there, but..., a revolt against private land ownership (at some point, will it be possible to "get in" on the ground floor of purchasing land or will all the useful land be long gone, creating major wealth for those who own it and locking out future generations - while it's owned privately, does this land ownership class become the new Feudal Lords?
Not sure it would be considered "immoral" but I'd imagine kids mortgaging their financial future to go hundreds of grand into debt just to get education will not be looked upon foundly.
Also, not to get political, but history will likely look harsly at certain things going on now (I'll just throw out Flint MI, the incarceration of two generations of poor, mostly black men and well, this recent kids in a cage debacle).
Protecting the interests of the .1% at the expense of everyone else while implementing fiscal policies which mortgage future generations.
This one's more out there, but..., a revolt against private land ownership (at some point, will it be possible to "get in" on the ground floor of purchasing land or will all the useful land be long gone, creating major wealth for those who own it and locking out future generations - while it's owned privately, does this land ownership class become the new Feudal Lords?
Not sure it would be considered "immoral" but I'd imagine kids mortgaging their financial future to go hundreds of grand into debt just to get education will not be looked upon foundly.
Also, not to get political, but history will likely look harsly at certain things going on now (I'll just throw out Flint MI, the incarceration of two generations of poor, mostly black men and well, this recent kids in a cage debacle).
Judge Smails
Footballguy
One of the best threads of the new era...
Jefferson the Caregiver
Rebel Without A Pause
All the sharing of data we are doing. Giving every app in the world permission to your data.
Social media falls under this as well.
Social media falls under this as well.
msommer
Footballguy
Flat Earth was not a religious belief and a round earth was widely accepted way before columbus. Geocentrism and heliocentrism was more of a scientific debate than a religious debate. Maybe in 50 years atheists will stop pushing their fairy tales.The Gator said:
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Don't Noonan
Footballguy
Progressive tax system, flat tax for everything
Arizona Ron
Footballguy
Not having a Space Force
Smack Tripper
Footballguy
Yes now go look at the birth rates of the communities I mentioned. They have routinely 6-8 kids in the Amish and Hasidic sects and have a generational turnover at a much shorter interval, usually first kid by 20-21. I believe the American average is 26.
These folks will have overlapping interests and become larger and larger voting blocks
msommer
Footballguy
To measure the growth if these communities you have to deduct attrition from other causes such as people choising more modern lifestyles.
-OZ-
Footballguy
Don't see the gun thing happening in our lifetime but maybe.
The lawn thing already is for many of us.
Smack Tripper
Footballguy
Just looked it up even a little lower than I thought, both are at about 80 percent retention.
Which still in essence means their numbers are tripling every 20 years, roughly.
Whereas the wider population, accounting for the inclusion of these communities raising the bar, is in essence, just sitting at replacement levels
brun
Footballguy
50 years will be beyond my lifetime. So I won't know if I'm wrong and might not know if I'm right either.
Bull Dozier
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
The Kennedy window. As i've written on this board quite a bit recently, i honestly spent my first 50 yrs believing humanity was on an inevitable track to perfectibility, but have come to the realization that the incredible postwar burgeoning-middle-class American Dream Era i grew up in & on, where we were all down to attack poverty, conflict, race, space, whatever, was like Luke Skywalker's window at the Death Star and we missed it by an entire parsec. But i've seen it, i know it's there and, because i believe that when we are not gods we are bugs, i will point my most sublime efforts at chasing better angels 'til we track that course again.
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msommer
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Politician Spock
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Smack Tripper
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msommer
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Think also of the overall trend: of the people 2000 years ago, how many were religious? How about 1000 years ago? 300? 100? 50? 25? 10?
If those percentages i.e. that trend doesn't affect your thinking on this, nothing will
Insein
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Bossman
Footballguy
Probably already mentioned but .... non-recyclable "plastic trash"
Looking in any trash can ... plastic food storage baggies, plastic grocery / shopping bags, plastic wrap, 6 pack rings, clam shell retail pack, etc.
Heck, the TRASH BAG is plastic!
50 years from now we will say;
"Remember when we'd think nothing of throwing out plastic ... even though we knew it would take 1000 years to decompose?
... and we would just bury it at the landfill and never look back. What were we thinking?"
Looking in any trash can ... plastic food storage baggies, plastic grocery / shopping bags, plastic wrap, 6 pack rings, clam shell retail pack, etc.
Heck, the TRASH BAG is plastic!
50 years from now we will say;
"Remember when we'd think nothing of throwing out plastic ... even though we knew it would take 1000 years to decompose?
... and we would just bury it at the landfill and never look back. What were we thinking?"
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Garbage men will be armed with x-ray guns and those who try to hide recyclables in black garbage bags will be arrested on site and taken to the abandoned illegal border children cages.
E-Z Glider
Footballguy
The days of owning anything with an engine are quickly coming to a close, so I'm going to go with "gas-stations". In another 20-30 years, referring to convenience stores as "gas stations" will be like old people today referring to their voice mail as "answering machines".
roadkill1292
Footballguy
Yeah, the eras of fossil fuels and driving yourself any further than up the street to hook your travel pod into the traffic network will be things that kids in school won't know about.
I guess religions will still be around in some fashion but I don't know how the anti-science segment of it will flourish in an era of fusion power.
You younger guys may get to enjoy the coming court fights over whether parents have the right to continue or discontinue (depending on the situation) the birth control device which they decided to install at the child's birth. Or whether the state has the right to prevent or compel said implementation in the first place.
I guess religions will still be around in some fashion but I don't know how the anti-science segment of it will flourish in an era of fusion power.
You younger guys may get to enjoy the coming court fights over whether parents have the right to continue or discontinue (depending on the situation) the birth control device which they decided to install at the child's birth. Or whether the state has the right to prevent or compel said implementation in the first place.
CurlyNight
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It's insane how difficult it is to get the dwd drugs. You have to have 2 docs say you have less than 6 months to live. But even nuttier is the fact that so many who get the meds are unable to take them or digest them! With many diseases like cancer and motor nerve diseases, these people may not be able to move or coordinate their arm and hand to get these horse pills to their mouths! Are their swallowing muscles functional? Then if they do, can they keep it down? Are their digestive organs able to break it down so hopefully the meds will reach the organs like the lungs and heart??comfortably numb said:
And what about the Alzheimer's pt who by that time is having cognitive issues. You need to be evaluated for being of sound mind to make this end of life decision!
My friend's mother has been saying for the longest time she wants to die. She's 91 in assisted living checked out much of the time and needs help with everything. She'd never pass the mental exam. So it's hell on her and her loved ones waiting and praying she gets her wish to just die already. Finances is another draining story.
We put the death row prisoners and our pets down quick and painlessly yet the eldery and terminally ill must go through so much paperwork and hoops! The meds are not covered by insurance. At that stage, who has 5k to spare??
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nirad3
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E-Z Glider
Footballguy
It was not because of religion. Most of the story surrounding those two and why they were treated that way is not true.
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Did you even read the second link?jon_mx said:
bigmarc27
Footballguy
If this has been mentioned I apologize, but just in general paper mail / newspapers.
I get so many magazines and newspapers in my mail that I’ve never asked for or subscribed to, they go directly into the garbage. If it’s not a package or a card of some kind, there’s not a single piece of mail that’s important. All of my bills are already done digitally.
It’s just a huge waste of paper and manpower.
I get so many magazines and newspapers in my mail that I’ve never asked for or subscribed to, they go directly into the garbage. If it’s not a package or a card of some kind, there’s not a single piece of mail that’s important. All of my bills are already done digitally.
It’s just a huge waste of paper and manpower.
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Having sex. In 50 years I’ll be dead, so it will be super abnormal for me to be having sex.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
Is this making any headway? Employers should want this to happen more than anybody. Puts them in full control of spending on employee cost.Politician Spock said:
Politician Spock
Footballguy
The growth of the "gig economy" is helping, as the percent of the workforce that does not have an employer grows.
Bossman
Footballguy
In 50 years we will be saying:
"I remember 50 years ago when all babies were vaccinated. Doctors didn't even give us a choice. They wouldn't let the kid go to day-care without it.
.... and we had no idea that injecting our infants, who have immature and underdeveloped immune systems, with a crazy concoction of chemicals, would cause peanut allergies, and all kinds of other allergies, later in life. To prevent Polio? ... a disease that no longer existed at that time ... lol. What were we thinking?"
"I remember 50 years ago when all babies were vaccinated. Doctors didn't even give us a choice. They wouldn't let the kid go to day-care without it.
.... and we had no idea that injecting our infants, who have immature and underdeveloped immune systems, with a crazy concoction of chemicals, would cause peanut allergies, and all kinds of other allergies, later in life. To prevent Polio? ... a disease that no longer existed at that time ... lol. What were we thinking?"
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Angry Beavers
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Tackle Football and combat sports such as MMA and Boxing. I am guessing that both of those sports are in for big changes.
Grahamburn
Footballguy
Marriage.
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