Asklemmy

I think a lot of it comes down to paperwork burden. It used to be if you were entitled to something there was an office you could sit down in and they had a responsibility to get you want you needed before you left. Now, they send you home with a link to a webpage that doesn't work and a million online forms that time out that you have to fill in perfectly or they get auto-rejected.

I'm dealing with this with a work friend who's trying to apply for medical leave with hostile management. If you can't count on your immediate boss getting you the paperwork you need in a timely manner without throwing a fit because you're "trying to get out of work", it just becomes a million times harder to live a normal life. It used to be that there was a chair somewhere you sat in and could reasonably expect your problems to be solved by the time you stood up again.

Yeah it's sucks. I feel like everthing I do or will do need to be optimazed instead of done for sake of doing.

I feel the same way, so many things are objectively worse. Cost of living up, government services and safety nets going away, taxpayer money funneled to billionaires, scammers, and wars. Technology is getting more expensive and more invasive. Everything is a scam or a trick now even from previously reputable businesses. The environment is being ravaged and natural resources are being used up and none of the big players doing most of the pollution care, they only care about revenue. Ethics and accountability are down, grift and cruelty are up.

You could post this exact question at literally any time in history and get a whole host of agreeing answers. That's a basic sanity test you should use to determine that this is a question incorrectly put.

Think of every day as a tiny knife, stabbing you.

(I forgot who said that in their routine and I don't want to look it up but it's somebody. Accordion lady? I refuse)

Can definitely relate. Am in my early 50's. Canadian government sold out Canadians, and now the country is a complete shithole. We're actively looking to leave Canada.

Def not just you, it's everyone some people are just better at ignoring it. I've always been raised around computers myself, but we're talking Windows 3.1 and 95 lol. I do indeed think it's the tech though. People have alter egos they try to pretend is real on social media. News travels faster with it, real or fake. Music you'd have to buy, listen to the radio, or watch TRL or 106 in park. Things are so immediate these days. People used to read, learn, etc. I got kids, and a large chunk of the shit they tell me they've learned was from TikTok. It truly is a different world, and it is stressful. It's hard to keep up, but you're here, and you're doing just fine.

I think you are slow on the uptake. It has been this way for a while.

Don't worry, it gets worse.

tbh a large part of it probably has to do with you getting older and looking back in the good old days in rose tinted glasses

some parts of the world got better now compared to few decades ago, while others have gotten much worse

Competition (& ranking) is great. Competition over every little thing is bad.

I have mixed feelings.

Is competition actually everywhere? There is hardly any service/product right now that does not make me feel like i am being robbed, and i live in a cheap country, i can't imagine what it feels like in the imperial core.

I'm sure many people can relate. I'm not sure how helpful this is. You sound like you're not from an area currently in a state of war or suffering from famine. So you're probably somewhere where you could try to talk a therapist.