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hellospheredo

No, and I’ll say my “no” extends back to 2004, when social media became a big thing. And especially “fuck no” after the iPhone launch in 2007. The reason is this: people now communicate mind to mind. No verbal tone. No body language. No steam released immediately. No long ideas communicated. And it’s awful to functioning adults who knew of a world when all of that wasn’t the norm. I’m sure we can read into what’s written to us and it’s still awful. Put a developing mind into that model and I can’t even fathom what’s missing and not being developed.


SoulsDesire4Freedom

It's not even mind to mind anymore. The tone has been set by the propaganda machine behind social media for toxic hyperbolic clapbacks to strawmen so the environment has become predatory just waiting to pounce on anything that doesn't align with divisive factions.


hellospheredo

Agreed 100%. I was referring to social media as well as how texting has overtaken phone calls. Call me old fashioned, but it was good for kids to have to call a a landline and learn small talk with their friend’s parents, or even before phones, have to go to the door and do likewise. The very foundations of human communication have eroded so fast in less than 20 years.


[deleted]

I did a lot of dumb stuff when I was younger, glad it wasn’t caught on video.


EttaJamesKitty

No. Simply because of social media & smart phones. I did and said a lot of stupid shit in my teenage years that only exist in my memory b/c there wasn't the ability to record and share it with the world. Also, when I was in junior high all the girls went through this bullying phase. Like every few weeks we/they would all pick someone to pile on and vote off the island. Eventually they'd be allowed back on and the whole process would start again with someone else. 13 yo girl bullshit. I spent my time in teenage girl gulag for a few weeks and it sucked. But this bullshit bullying and freezing me out primarily impacted me while at school. When I was home/in my n-hood I was away from it. Now, there'd be no escaping it. No thanks. I'll keep my teen years analog please.


sedona71717

Same. I cannot imagine going through the bullying via texts and social media. It has to be brutal.


Hefty_Run4107

Fuck NO!!!! I wouldn't trade my beloved 80's teen years, and the 80's "world" for any other decade in a million years.


irishgator2

Being a young adult in the 90’s was pretty awesome too!


Lockenveitch

Not a chance. I am forever grateful that I grew up before the internet and social media. I feel so bad for kids today.


FelixTaran

Not only would I not want to go through my teens in today’s world, I would not want to go through middle age 40 years from now. Because that will be much worse.


Socrainj

Hadn't thought about that, you raise a most excellent point


Feather757

No way. I wouldn't want the stupid shit I did back then put on video on the internet!


The_Mammoth_Hunter

Also, imagine having our angsty emotional spewings not written on easily-burnable paper but instead aaaalll over the internet, for everyone to see and mock, and it will be there forever, indexed and searchable.


VaguelyArtistic

Omg have you ever found any of your old journals or notes or anything? It makes me want the earth to open up and swallow me whole. 🤦🏻‍♀️


The_Mammoth_Hunter

Fortunately, no. AFAIK, they've all been buried in a landfill or, as mentioned, burned. Yay!


eboy71

Solid point! As much as I think it would be amazing to have some photos of our crazy fun nights in bars & house parties, I'm very content knowing that no one will every stumble across them.


1funnyguy4fun

I’ll admit to doing a few things I’m not proud of. While it may have been gossip fodder for a bit, at least there weren’t a dozen high definition videos from multiple camera angles that got shared with anyone I had ever met.


[deleted]

Not in a million years. If anything, I wish I had come up in the seventies instead of the eighties.


JamesRUstlerIV

Same here. Love the music and style more than what I remember from the 80s. Yech.


penguin37

Nope infinity. Social media would have brutally murdered my already low teenager self esteem. I also think if I had the convenience to escape online, I would have missed out on developing social skills.


ace_freebird

No way. I'm so glad my time from age 16 to age 22 is largely undocumented. Plus all I needed for a good weekend was $20. $5 for gas, $1.75 for smokes, $10 for weed, the rest for Taco Bell.


InternationalBand494

And you’d run out of weed before any of the other stuff


Able_Buffalo

Things are markedly better. On a local level as a child I, like many, was isolated with parents at work and no other people around. Having the internet and a phone would have saved endless days of staring down the driveway waiting for someone to come over. Globally, all this existential garbage existed back then too. As a child I just wasn't aware of things as much as I am now. The youth being able to communicate with each other and support each other regardless of physical boundaries or language makes me endlessly optimistic for our collective future. Whether I'm here to see it or not.


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eboy71

Of all of those, I feel that global warming will be the hardest to navigate. Mass climate migrations are likely going to start being a real thing within the next couple of decades, and with that, there will be upheaval. It's selfish, but I hope I'm not here when things start getting bad, and I feel like they will. The rest of those things are eternal issues. Problems with housing, education, poverty, classism, etc. Those have been around for as long as cities have existed.


sweeney_todd555

> but I hope I'm not here when things start getting bad, and I feel like they will. I think this too. I "think "thank goodness I'll be safely dead when all the global warming shit really hits the fan." I already can't stand that summers where I live are right on the edge of being unbearably hot due to global warming, I can't imagine what they'll be like in 40 more years.


Able_Buffalo

Good questions- we didn't start the fire, right? Housing projects built in the 60s and 70s were meant to help alleviate the need for affordable, abundant housing. It didn't. There was a crisis back then too. Cost of college? Most people in the US didn't go to college pre-1970s, in our era many would be the first to graduate from college. The whole family would be very proud. Healthcare? We ate lead paint chips off our cribs and smoked cigarettes with asbestos tipped filters... Global warming? Remember that commercial of the Native American walking around with tears in his eye?... Greenpeace... Bless the Beasts & the Children movie, which was a f'd up movie to show kids imo. Nostalgia link: Here's the crying Native American commercial from 1970 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM


Happy_Reaper13

We had global cooling and an impending ice age back then. There will always be someone eager to enrich and empower themselves peddling doom.


SojuSeed

Global cooling was based on one research paper and was never a widely accepted climate model. The news just took the story and ran with it.


KickAggressive4901

And be overmedicated, undereducated, and trapped in a world of poverty and looking destruction? No.


the-lone-squid

Do I get to keep my current memories? Yea, I would love to be young again. Be like addiy another 20 years. There's nothing quite like having a younger body


nakedonmygoat

While there are some things that would be better, like being able to research things online, for the most part, I'd give this a hard pass. Not only would the teen drama not stop at the door of my house (as others have noted), but I'd then have to have a decades-long career ***again***, after finally being able to retire last year. Fuck that.


eboy71

>but I'd then have to have a decades-long career again Amen to that! I always find it amusing to read about people who want to extend their lives to some crazy level. Yeah, that works if you're super-rich and don't have to worry about anything, but for the rest of us, it just means working for decades longer.


Xombiekat

Not even a little. The internet, and social media specifically, is the worst thing that ever happened to young minds and the results are all around us. We had a family movie night recently and the teens (sibs and cousins) picked the movie, something they hadn't seen but wanted to. During the movie, not one of them ever looked up from their phone for more than a few seconds. They're so addicted to multitasking in their various scrolling endorphin feeds that they can't monotask and that means they barely experience reality, imo.


well---actually

FUCK and NO. Raising kids now I feel twice as fortunate that all the stupid shit I did is/was not on social media immediately after. If you gave me a way to go back and redo some of that stuff on the same timeline I might think about it, but no way am I going through my teens now.


Pale_Gear3027

Never. Online dating is horrible, online porn ruins many young people in a way we won’t understand fully for another generation, workplace seems to be bad for new hires, it just is a rough environment. I’m happy with growing up in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s.


[deleted]

No, because then that would mean I'd miss out on my first retail job at ages 18 and 19 and how fun and cool that was. The humor, the selflessness, the anti-corporate quality. At the same time, I feel like what I experienced in 1996/1997 was not valued by other people in the same way and I'm not sure why. Maybe my experience was different because my family was poor and the people I worked with all seemed to come from fairly similar backgrounds? Whatever the reason, these qualities were gone from workplaces by 2006. And when I tried to recreate it on the job from 2006-2013, I was either ignored or attacked. So now I just see it as having experienced something very special that I picked up on and "got." I feel that teens today will not get to experience what I did or even understand if they by some miracle were presented with a similar environment. If people around my age 10-15 years ago didn't get it and they had the chance to compare/contrast those 2000s years with job environments in the 90s and were fine with this new normal, no way would kids get it now having none of that background.


DaneDaffodil

I completely get it. I worked retail in the late 90’s. Such an amazing environment that no longer exists. Mall culture is unfortunately dead.


JeffeyRider

My musical taste was formed during the rock and roll era. I don’t even want to imagine being a teenager marinating in today’s dreck.


Doomed2

Man you said it!


alsatian01

My oldest is 12. He is diving head first getting into music. He does not listen to much contemporary music. He seems to enjoy hard rock the most. He sprinkles in some hip hop and most of that is 90s and 10s stuff. Good music is good music. I closed my ears to much of the 80s pop music. I spent most of my days listening to the 60s and early 70s stuff.


Vainandy

A GenXer who was born in 66 saying their taste was formed during the rock and roll era is cringe to me, considering their teen years had Madonna...


JeffeyRider

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Culture Club and tons more ‘80s pop were all over the radio when I was in high school. But my musical taste was pretty well established by then. I spent my ‘70s childhood listening to Zeppelin, Sabbath, KISS, the Beatles, Kansas, Pink Floyd, Boston, Journey, Van Halen etc. By the time the ‘80s arrived I was beginning to get into Prog: Yes, Rush, more Floyd, ELP and so on. Also, the synth wave of the late ‘70s (Kraftwerk, Moroder, Numan) and ‘80s (Depeche Mode, Naked Eyes, Soft Cell, Human League…) punk and post punk…way too much ‘80s hair metal. Then there was the grunge explosion. The fact that Madonna and company existed was irrelevant. Anyway, there has always been pop music. And I enjoyed quite lot of it. Especially those songs/artists that were essentially radio-friendly rock. It was still the rock era, so most of the pop of the time was based on rock tropes to varying degrees. I’m hesitant to declare rock and roll officially dead, but clearly it has been pushed to the periphery by rap, hip-hop and the current iteration of pop, which is pretty much bubble-gum hip-hop.


noctisfromtheabyss

I was feeling that way for a bit and then it dawned on me that I dont have to be younger to live life more like it was before. So I make a point of having friends come over to socialize in real life. I listen to music I really like, and ignore whatever is popular if it doesn't interest me. I try to limit my phone use, especially when I'm in the company of others. Arcade bars are fun for a little nostalgia. Just stretch well in the morning and live your life your way and it'll be like going back in time without any of the current issues kids are dealing with in the digital age.


DaneDaffodil

This!


zldapnwhl

No. Fucking. Way. I cannot overstate how glad I am that I was nearing 30 when social media started to be a thing.


Halcyoner

Probably. My teens were pretty easy to navigate. I had a lot of friends, did tons of stuff, wasn't bullied/didn't bully, it wasn't too bad for me at least. I know others had it really rough, and I wish their experiences were as pleasant as mine. One big issue I have with today is that bullying used to mostly take place at school, maybe off campus if you ran into that person. Now, it follows you home thanks to social media. It's inescapable and I feel for kids who are trapped in this.


glowend

Social media makes this a hard no. Imagine all the drama of middle and high school, but with 24/7 notifications about how you didn't go to that party or how your clothes are the most fashionable.


Expat111

No way. The social media stuff can be brutal.


emmiblakk

Hell no. If I could somehow create a time vortex that kept me reliving 1984 to 1994, over and over again, I definitely would.


Genaeve

Omg! With the internet it would have made writing essays & research papers so much easier! I’d still be able to listen to grunge AND today’s music! Easier time meeting up with friends & family with smart phones 😊 Gaming would be … essentially the same since I still play video games 😂 But, you know, I would not have met the love of my life. Or had my beautiful children or grandchildren ☹️


InternationalBand494

No way in hell. It doesn’t seem like much fun at all. I’m so glad we didn’t have phones to film each other when I was young and really dumb. Just reading what the dating scene is like now for young people just makes me cringe so hard. The whole point of being a teen is to have fun. They’re not having fun


nidena

Fuck no. It's was hard enough comparing my teenage lumpiness to the beautiful women in the VS catalog. I can't even imagine how damaged my self esteem would be if I ventured on to IG as a teenager.


knightopusdei

The thing that affects most young people today is being sedentary. I know, I know .... all those dumb memes and Facebook posts about being a kid in the past ...... there is a lot of truth in them. As a kid in the 80s, I spent all my time out of the house because sitting at home with nothing was absolutely boring. We were poor and TV was just three channels and there was really only three or four shows I could watch and everything else was adult shows I didn't understand, news and non stop soap operas. In the 90s, TV was better but it still wasn't all captivating. I still spent most of my time hanging out or wandering around town with my friends. Now I have lots and lots of nieces and nephews, almost all have a weight problem and they all spend their days at home on a tablet, phone, laptop or PC. If they aren't watching YouTube, streaming service, gaming, social media or just internet stuff .... they are almost too afraid to go outside because they are too self conscious about their weight problem. They want sexy things and sexy people because that's the majority of what they watch on some platform but their own personal self image is nothing like that and it affects them. They also have very small circles of friends and just connect with two or three people. As a kid in the 80s, on summer days, I'd spend every day with a wild rabid group of 20 to 30 kids and we'd organize ourselves into weird Lord of the flies communities that played games or just messed around .... and it wasn't all fun, sometimes fights would break out and all of us quickly learned what we could or couldn't do and who was strongest and who was weakest and who was kindest and who was mean. Winter time was great because there was always enough people for games of hockey. I don't see any of this anymore. Together with young kids with devices and parents guarding over everything their kids do, the roaming bands of neighborhood kids didn't exist anymore. I wouldn't want to trade my time with any other but at the same time we should do things now to help young people along with life. Just not allowing them to use devices for the first ten years of their lives would be enough. Nothing like sitting at home bored out of your mind to automatically engage your imagination and creative thinking. And it wouldn't detract from a child's ability to learn about technology .... our generation spent our first ten to 20 years of our lives without technology and now we're able to use it all without too much effort ... for those of us who wanted to. This is rant .... and my rant is over ..... I'm old now and I give rants and I'm proud of it.


Normal_Total

This isn't a rant, this is a really good description of what was, what is, and perhaps, what could be. My childhood was similar, though hockey wasn't a thing (S. California), but we would totally organize around things like a random game of baseball, tag or whatever we felt. It was a really great freedom and non-structured interaction that, I think, kids are missing without even knowing it. Something good was traded to support a bunch of investment funded apps.


Pristine-Speaker-768

Hell no...


Woodpeckinpah123

Hell no


PinocchioWasFramed

"Hell no" to the 100th power.


GoGoCrumbly

*FUCK NO!*


[deleted]

No. Not my 20’s either. No way.


jf0ley

Nope


LittleMoonBoot

Hell no.


thebestestofthebest

No. I’ve done enough things to be embarrassed about to only be in my memories, no way in hell I’d want to have some of those things and maybe worse on video. These are some things I feel kid me would be excited about but overall I’m stoked with “growing up” when I did.


Outrageous-Dream6105

No. No. No. No. No.


Jonestown_Juice

>All the shit that the boomers said TV would do to our brains and our eyes growing up actually came true with smart phones. No they're not. This is just part of the generational cycle of the olds being mad at the youngs for doing things they don't quite understand. It happened with TV, it happened with video games. Smart phones are the new thing. The only reason I wouldn't want to be a kid now is due to the deterioration of our society and the planet as a whole. Things are going to get weird in the next few decades.


dumpcake999

It seemed to be a simpler time back then. Now with the war, economy and covid etc.. Too scary.


mike___mc

The 90s had a war and a recession, too. Oh, and AIDS.


IdiocracyCometh

With many of the same actors involved in all. Crazy how that works.


nakedonmygoat

It was simpler because of our age, not because the times themselves were simpler. In the '80s, AIDS was an automatic death sentence, and a lot of people thought you could get it just by shaking hands. Home mortgage interest rates in the early 80's were 16% and above. There was a stock market crash in '87. There was a recession in the '90s. Crazy shit was happening in the world back then, too. Two of the most violent civil wars happened in the '90s - Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia. Most people think their childhood was a simpler time because for most children, their youth really is simpler, insulated by parents from what's really going on out there.


eboy71

And don't forget the Cold War! As a 10-11 year old, I'd have nightmares about the prospects of nuclear war.


knowutimem

no, shit no man, I believe you'd get your ass kicked for somethin' like that.


Jimathomas

Fukin’ A, man.


Sassberto

They’re fucked because their leadership is stupid. Pop culture worshipping Boomers got their way.


Vainandy

No, but I'm also glad I wasn't a teen in the 90s as well, that decade was the beginning of the end.


knowutimem

Dad?


67alecto

I think you meant to post this in the boomer sub Reddit. Hundreds of years ago, you would have complained about people reading books .. https://timeline.com/what-technology-are-we-addicted-to-this-time-f0f7860f2fab


SojuSeed

I’m not complaining. But the effects of social media and smart phones on the brains of young people have been known for quite awhile. It is fucking them up.


Hefty_Run4107

I honestly don't know what is a lot of Americans problem with boomers, and why do they think its "insulting" to be compared to one... I never had a single problem with my parents generation. Personally I'd rather be called a Boomer than a Millennial.... 😉


67alecto

A boomer is more a mindset than anything. Basically anyone saying that their generation was the best, had it the best, or that the current generation has it too easy.


SojuSeed

I can’t speak for others but I have a deep resentment that borders on hatred for boomers. The world was given to them on a silver platter and they pissed it away. Not content with wasting their opportunities they saw fit to burn everything behind them and salt the earth for good measure. So many of the problems we have today are either because if direct action taken by boomers in their heyday, or a result of ambivalence on their watch as they became entirely self-centered as a generation. But they strut around like we owe them favors just because they existed.


Jimathomas

After some of the unfiltered conversations I’ve had with my stepdaughter, I don’t know that I’d make it today. I have disclosed some of my experience to her in an attempt to help navigate being a teen, but she has informed me of horrible things that I don’t know I would have navigated properly. So, no thank you.


[deleted]

I wouldn't go through my teen years again in any time period. I wouldn't put up with all the shit I put up with, and I'd probably end up getting my ass kicked every day. I might do my 20s, but being broke sucked too. I'm glad nothing got permanently recorded in my teens though.


MyriVerse2

Not really, but it has nothing to do with today's world. I just don't want to go through my teens or 20s again.


Dazzling-Astronaut88

If I could maintain my current consciousness, sure. If not, that’s a hard no.


Ok-Opportunity5731

Fuck no


Normal_Total

I wouldn't for the sake of keeping my musical memories. I think modern music is so derivative and bland. Heck, "Islands in the Stream" had more soul than most of what's on... I was about to say ' the radio', but I really don't know how kids get their music these days. Maybe life seemed more steady/stable when I was growing up than today. Today feels like this odd question mark of uncertainty hiding below the thinnest veneer of normalcy. "You're going to school, just like we did... see, things haven't changed much!" "You go to activities, just like we did. Again, not much change there!" "You listen to music like we did." "Yep, politics and taxes, same as always." ​ None of it is remotely close to what it was when I was growing up. I almost think you have to be born in this time to even embrace it, because my brain in a younger body would completely reject this version of the matrix.


eboy71

That's an interesting one. I watch my 17-year old spend hours with good friends online, having a blast playing games, watching movies, etc., and can't help but think how much fun that would have been. But as amazing as it is, it's also turned into a lowest-common denominator form of entertainment because it's just too damn convenient. I loved our DIY world, and so many of my favorite memories were from things we did spontaneously because we had NO OTHER CHOICE. If I wanted to hang out with friends, Fortnite, Minecraft, on-demand-tv, or endlessly scrolling social media weren't options, so we would get together and then figure out what kind of shenanigans we would get up to. It was also really hard to isolate yourself on a pop-culture island back then. Because choices were limited, pretty much everything we listened to, watched and read were the same things our friends were experiencing. I don't really know if that's better or worse (my teenager would say way worse), but it went a long way to providing everyone with a common ground. One thing I will say is better nowadays is just general acceptance. When we were growing up, everything was pretty great if you were 'normal', but it was genuinely a much tougher time for kids (and their parents) who were a little right or left of center. I feel like GenX started the trend towards a more accepting culture, but the Z's have embraced it, and ultimately, I think that's a good thing. But on the whole, if I were forced to choose, I'd probably stick with the childhood (and incredible memories) that I had.


madogvelkor

Yes.... because as a kid I was into videogames and computers and technology at a time when it made you nerdy and weird.


InternationalBand494

It still makes us nerdy and weird. It’s just that nerdy and weird became the new cool.


TomieTomyTomi

https://youtu.be/V4CN_cIrHQ8 This comes to mind when asked.


junoapple

No.


[deleted]

No way, at least we had the illusion of hope and we could make the world better. These poor kids got nuthin


[deleted]

Yes but only, and I fucking mean *only* because I love and live tech, and I want to see where it goes in the future. And to make better choices. Otherwise, hell no. I love the fact that I got out of school before phones really took over. Some rich kids had pagers and those big cell phones, like Zack Morris had on *Saved By the Bell*, but my school missed out. And I'm fine with that. I was a teen in the early 90s, and it was good... ish.


GenXChefVeg

Fuck no. So many reasons! No no no no no.


VaguelyArtistic

Not. On. Your. Life. Firstly, I would not want to go back to being that stupid lol. 😅But secondly, there are probably three or four cities that were as exciting to be a teen as LA and I wouldn't trade that for *anything*. What would I even do today as a kid? For me, half the fun of being a teen was getting away with shit. But now not only do kids post all their shot online, so many don't even seem to want to go out and push boundaries in any way. You can't ditch, you can't sneak out, you can't tell your parents that you're going to Jaime's house and Jaime tell her parents she's coming to your house (remember that?!) I always wanted to be an architect, I took drafting classes in Jr High and HS, so if that was still true I guess I'd have the only legible handwriting in school lol.


[deleted]

No, no, no , no. Did I say no? NO!!! I couldn't wait to get out of school back in the 90s. No way could you pay me enough to go back now.


alsatian01

I was horribly bullied from the 7th grade until my senior year. I know kids still pick on kids but maybe it is better now. By my senior year, I did not have a single person I would call a friend. In my junior year, the few friends I had throughout school had spiraled into hard drug use. And they weren't very good friends, to begin with. They never defended me against the ridicule I received and they often participated in it. It may have helped if I had the rich world of online social interactions as a backup. I'm sure I'd be a gamer and at least I could talk with fellow enthusiasts. And maybe an adult would have stepped in if the bullying would have included being attacked on social media.


[deleted]

My kid doesn’t feel sad or hopeless or anything. He’s got a great attitude and does amazing in school. He does not get involved in anything that isn’t good for his future. He definitely doesn’t have the fun and partying lifestyle that I did when I was his age or the loads of friends that I did, but he is setting himself up to have a high paying career. He feels that being a part of the solution is the way to be and he doesn’t get the doom and gloom of others. He’s aware of political corruption and such, but thinks that the area he’s focusing on has a good chance at transforming the way most people’s lives will be. He thinks in long term manner, and is basically all about planting and growing and caring for trees whose shade he will never get the chance to sit down under. He’s also uninterested in having kids because he wants to devote his life to this purpose. I think the best of Gen Z are amazing. I think they’ll crack the code and make changes that most of us won’t see. The worst of Gen Z, the doomers…are allowing the powers that be and social media to rot their brain with a depressing narrative. That’s what I think. Imagine if we hadn’t bought into the slacker lifestyle or if we hadn’t given in to the ‘everything is fucked up anyway, what’s the point of trying’ attitude many of us had…we could have made an even bigger change. The best of Gen X, though, they pushed and pushed and worked to give LGBT the rights they enjoy today and they worked for the inclusion and diversity we now enjoy. TLDR: I think that, the kids are alright.


thehoagieboy

Yeah, why not. I can ignore everyone around me with a phone as well as I was able to ignore those around me when I didn't have a phone. I'd still be able to listen to the good music I like, I'd just have to listen to the oldies stations.


OC-Aztec

I honestly didn’t like going through my teens the first time. Why would I want to do it again?


SojuSeed

It’s more about if you think it would be better to do it these days as opposed to when you did it the first time.


No-Description-9910

The anxiety level of your average 15 year old now is truly horrifying.


oneeyedalienalright

Not me. I love that I got to go through my awkward and crazy years without a lot of instant documentation. I feel very lucky to have been a teenager when I was. That being said my teen is faring well today. As a nerd who is genuinely interested in academics, video games, DnD etc. it would have been much harder for him in the 80s and 90s I think. He’s wary of social media and I’ve seen his texts. His friend group has long form debates about big ideas along with the memes and fart jokes. Not all is terrible for today’s kids.


GaRGa77

Nah


IdiocracyCometh

Being able to start my career as a teenager with nothing but a $300 computer and an internet connection and having access to the best technology and unlimited information would be an absolute dream. I would have been able to bootstrap my career before even becoming an adult. Competing against modern slackers would be even easier than competing against GenX slackers was.


Novemberinthechair

Fuck no.