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technology has already solved all of the issues i mention, so we don't really need to wait for a tech fix, the problem is political interests don't care to use tech for the public interest. 
Global hunger was solved with technology like 200 years ago. There's an economist, amartya sen, who famously said something like every single famine in the last 300 years was preventable/(it was man made)
I guess it depends on how long ago you consider "recent history."
Yeah, my childhood was great. Went to college in 1996, partied my ass off, joined a band, played awesome shows at clubs, had a huge group of friends.
My father-in-law's was less great. Finished high school, got immediately shipped off to a jungle by the government, had to kill a bunch of men (one of them with a length of piano wire), watched a lot of his friends die, spent the rest of his life waking up screaming.
My grandmother's was even less great. They, you know, didn't have any food. We have a picture where a rich guy gave them all oranges so he could have his photograph taken with starving immigrant children like they were animals in the zoo. My grandmother looks absolutely fucking pissed off in that photo. She still accepted the orange, though.
It's not that this is one of the "worst" times in the last couple hundred years. It's that the period from about 1974 to 2001 just happened to be the best one in history. Assuming you didn't live somewhere like Bosnia or Northern Ireland, anyway. >

Fundamentally? This is roughly the equivalent of saying 'life is simpler when you're a child'.
Of course you think life was simpler in the 90s and 2000s, you weren't an adult until 2009! Except in very bad cases, someone's childhood will always be simpler than their adulthood, that's kind of the point of childhood!
You're just the new version of every single adult in history talking about how the newest invention of video games/television/radio/newspapers/the printing press/paper/stone tablets have ruined the youth. >

First off that only goes until 2015, which is 7 years in the past. Secondly, even if we do take that as a modern example, the male suicide rate still is nowhere near the peak that it used to be. >

Is this just aimed at Americans because depending on where in the world you grew up over the past 30 years, these could be quite amazing times compared to the wars and genocides of the 90s >

Reddit Rule #1: assume the person you're talking to is American and is talking exclusively about the USA. >

Amateur mistake on part >

I'm guessing you aren't LGBTQ+; things are a lot better now than they were before Y2K if you aren't cis and het. >


...Life was much more simple in the 90’s and 2000’s. Want to hang out with someone? Give them a call on their house phone. Blockbuster, movie theaters, malls, bowling alleys, to name a few, were the shit....

This depends upon the small subsection of society in a small subsection of a state in a small subsection of history. 90s were just as horrifying for the African American population to have children with the introduction of the '94 crime bill that increased the incarceration rates for poor, marginalized populations at an exponential rate. 
It has always been the worst of times to have children by the global south since at least the start of colonisation process. Genocides haven't stopped, divisions have only deepened, violence has been the norm, neocolonialism has only made things worse. 
So, the argument that: 

This is one of the worst times in recent history for kids to grow up in.

Is only valid as an anecdotal piece of assumption for a few lucky people, than a general agreement of reality. >

People just didn't appreciate the Black Death. >

I guess to some people, social isolation is worse than everyone you ever knew dying of horrible pus-oozing boils and the smartest man u know says u can cure it all by taking a bath in human piss. >

First of all, you don't have to give kids smartphones. But second of all, even if things are worse than your experience, keep in mind that many people at the time you grew up had worse experiences than you. Assuming you're talking about the United States, statistically, things have gotten better for black people, gay people, and women, and all those together are a large enough demographic to say that overall things are actually better. >

where u live man? 35% of the world doesn't even have internet.
Here are some bad times for growing up:
As a slavic in 1944.
During the 2008 financial crisis, in any of the 30 countries that starved and rioted because of food commodity speculation from banks.
Living in west papua, or western sahara today. >

Definitely 3000% agree with this point. Don't forget about being Jewish at any time in the past 2,000 years! >

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I agree with almost everything op said. I was born in '76 so I think we had it way better. The world wasn't such a big place to any of us back then. By the time the internet was starting to be in most homes via dial up I/we were already hopefully grown enough to be able to process all the bullshit that came with it a little bit better. I watched Goonies (for the 37th time) yesterday and we were saying that's exactly how it was for us. Actually going outside, not watching hours of TV everyday, exploring the neighborhood, whatever we wanted to basically. Try that now and someone is filming you or the law is called. Everyone wants to take a thousand pictures or videos of everything. I'm so thankful we didn't have to deal with all that needless shit as kids. I hate to say it but I don't see why anyone would want bring a child into this completely fucked up "woke" America. Anyway that's only my opinion. >

There was a couple great episodes about this on the "twilight zone".
There was an episode about a guy that always wanted to go back to his childhood because he thought it was great, and one day he did woke up as a child and relived his childhood, only to rediscover that it wasn't actually that great as he remembered it.
I think there is a great saying "you can visit old places, but you can't visit old times". >

How do you think the baby boomers feel?? If you think the good old days were the 2000s, good Lord! My generation played freely outside all day and night. Our parents didn't worry. We played all kind of games as a neighborhood.  We rode bikes for miles away from our home turf. Took busses to Saturday matinees. Our kids started to be afraid to go outside and stayed in to play Nintendo when it came out. Our grandkids play video games till they're bind, and a sewn to their phones. The world has changed! I'm 66 and I remember, and feel sorry for the ones coming up that they don't have the fear free freedom we had. >

I completely agree. I didn't grow up in the 90s. I was born in the 2000s. But I've heard the stories. My uncle was born in 89 and tells me people used to be so much more social before the internet. Whole neighborhoods would interact with eachother. Kids would he out playing everywhere. Everything was lively. Now everyone is shut indoors and on their phone. I wish I was born in the mid 80s early 90s. >

I was born in '92. 
I think WE had it worst. We are the last who have seen the "real world" "BI" (before internet) and remember it. 
Kids who are born today will likely never have to work a day in their lives because by the time they grow up, technology will have reached a point where there's no need for them to work, and they won't be able to outperform AI even if they wanted to work. >

Kids born today are completely fucked imo, or their kids are. Global Warming, a likely dominance of global proto-facism, and the ever increasing proliferation of nuclear weapons is not something to look foward to. Income inequality is the highest it has ever been in human history, and it just seems to get worse and worse. Historically, this always leads to political chaos, but this time there are the above mentioned factors to add to it. >

I am of the belief that technology will render literally every other problem moot.
Not necessarily in a good way; humanity as we know it could not exist anymore in a few decades. But in any case, all of the other problems like global warming will simply become insignificant because either technology will have become a much bigger threat, or it would be able to easily solve these problems.