Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
I don&#x27;t know your age but I&#x27;m going to guess 30+. This is just happens when you get old. When you were younger you probably noticed that all the older people you knew pined for some earlier time (say the 1970s or 1950s). And you probably thought they were being silly. Well, now you&#x27;ve become one of those people.<p>The fact is the world always seems better when you are younger, not because the world necessarily better, but because it&#x27;s just more pleasant to be young. The future is full of promise, you haven&#x27;t made any huge mistakes yet, and your body hasn&#x27;t started the inexorable march towards decay and death.<p>Most of your points are subjective, reflecting people&#x27;s mentality or thoughts. I can&#x27;t really argue against this because it&#x27;s your own perception. But I would say you should be a bit skeptical that people&#x27;s behavior can really change that much over such a short period. It&#x27;s much more likely that you interpret it differently than you use to. Scams have been prevalent throughout human history. Perhaps you are just paying more attention to the news lately?<p>Some of the things you bring up are valid objective things. For example it&#x27;s true that many more things are subscription based now. But on the other hands, those are things that weren&#x27;t even available before. You can still buy and play all the same non-subscription games that used to exist (I still play HOMM3 for example). If you prefer cable TV that still exists as well. So I find it misleading to argue that because we have <i>more choice</i> that it&#x27;s somehow worse when the previous options haven&#x27;t been taken away.