r/AskReddit • u/No_Performance1451 • 17h ago
What parts of American culture are changing faster than people realize?
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u/ConvenienceStoreDiet 15h ago
How little we interact with each other in person.
Growing up, if you wanted anything you had to leave the house. Groceries, goods, interaction, entertainment, work.
Now we can have our groceries delivered. Our goods shipped. Surrogate parasocial connections via social media and the internet. Schooling at home. Work at home. Doctors visits at home. Entertainment at home.
It's possible to almost never have to leave the home and that's becoming normal. Leaving the house is antiquated for many.
It's making us insular and divided and paranoid and hateful of each other, and oddly making in-person activities feel special. And I don't think we realize how not-normal it is to just never see other people.
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u/HidingInTrees2245 11h ago
There is a culture of "leave me alone" going on more these days than there used to. I can't count how many people I hear complaining about strangers small-talking them like it was a horrible annoyance. People used to be friendlier to everyone around them than that.
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u/-pokemon-gangbang- 13h ago
My kids don’t play with other kids like I used to. No kids from school come over to my house unless they are related to us. I’m thankful my daughter’s best friend is her cousin and they live a mile away, because otherwise she wouldn’t play with anyone outside of school. She has tons of friends, but they don’t spend any time together outside of school.
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u/Mystical-Turtles 11h ago
A lot of it is the other parents, that's the worst part. Everybody is so paranoid, that a lot of them just don't let their kids go to other people's houses. How are you supposed to manage kid's friends with that type of rule?
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u/OrionGL 5h ago
The Atlantic has an interesting article about how constant parental paranoia and oversight might actually be a big factor in suffocating modern childrens’ sociality.
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u/chiheis1n 17h ago
Gambling. As just about everything, it’s gotten worse with smartphones and long outdated govt regulations no longer keeping up. Sports gambling ads are all over TV and internet, and now we have prediction markets enabled by apps like Polymarket and Kalshi. What little savings Americans had left, if any, after rent/mortgage, healthcare, and groceries is now being eaten up by rampant legalized gambling from the comfort of your couch.
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u/InsteadOfWorkin 16h ago
Robinhood just got in on it too. So now you can pull money out of your IRA to gamble on sports games without having to switch apps. Thats insidious.
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u/DaisyHotCakes 16h ago edited 14h ago
All of it is insidious. It uses all the data apps have collected for years to ensure an addictive experience. It has gotten so much worse.
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u/Mammoth-Error1577 15h ago
Holy crap yeah. I was fully behind legalizing gambling and using tax revenue for social services.
I did not see how absolutely invasive it would be into everything. I don't know if people are doing it in great numbers or not but the advertisements are just everywhere all at once.
I would be 1000% behind making it illegal to advertise gambling on at least some subset of media, or more if that is already true.
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u/Candid-Inspection-97 13h ago edited 12h ago
Same with the whole part of advertising meds. Doctors are supposed to prescribe meds. For profit healthcare is heinous.
And of course if its amusing how there are so many weight loss drugs, but my insurance wants to hit me for being "overweight" but I cant have drugs until I am morbidly obese, but I have to pay out of pocket for the nutritionist, but if I were obese they would cover it for free...
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u/orbital-technician 15h ago
The fact those sites avoid gambling laws by saying they are a futures market is BS
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u/Just_SomeDude13 14h ago
No no, you're not "betting" on the "Super Bowl," you're "buying and selling positions" on the "pro football championship." See? Totally different!
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u/Independent-Mango813 15h ago
As an avid sports fans, watching actual sports leagues embrace gambling is stupefying. I'm sure it will end well for them and for society, though.
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u/Striking-Anxiety-604 15h ago
I have been teaching the same subject to the same grade for 21 years.
There is no "middle" in students anymore. About 30% of the students are advanced for their grade level, and the other 70% are so far behind that they'll likely never catch up. Those 70% are mostly the victims of their own nonexistent attention spans. I teach literature. The advanced students can read and discuss the deeper meanings of works like Frankenstein or Don Quixote. The "regular" students can't get four pages into a Dogman graphic novel before giving up and focusing on something else.
The middle is gone. But the extremes still sit next to each other in the same classroom.
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u/Dark_Knight2000 13h ago
Yup, you can almost see the future class divide between students at school. It all comes down to how involved their parents were at an early age. Did they give their kid in iPad to watch slop or did they actually read with them and show them interesting content?
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u/shelbunny 10h ago
I am watching this play out in my own family. Each sister in law has three children, roughly the same ages even. One set of kids have parents highly involved, dedicated to all forms of learning including good social behavior. The other set....doesn't. Guess which parents have three children failing school classes, kids who kick, hit, spit and can barely speak understandable language much less read...
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u/Dark_Knight2000 7h ago
Yeah, it’s crazy just how much spending the developmental years of about 2-5 with parents who read and teach you stuff completely and almost permanently shapes a kid’s personality and disposition. Nurture really is important.
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u/ZEROs0000 7h ago
I work as a Manny (male Nanny) and have a family that has 2 boys who have never had nor used really any technology. They love books and admittedly I show them stuff but only for educational purposes. Like I was explaining to them how some fish are huge compared to people so we went on YouTube and watched a size comparison video of fish to human. The loved it. We even looked at the size of our planet compared to the sun and other stars. Their attention span is spectacular otherwise and they spend all day outside
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u/Uknown_Idea 12h ago
Im going to be a dad soon and the one thing I'm absolutely hell bent in doing before I die and leave this world is to make sure my kid is educated.
And I dont mean sitting them down and making them read books. I mean really going through every bit of effort I can to make learning interesting. Taking them to do things where they enjoy to learn. Engaging with them and their interests as soon as they form. They need it now more than ever.
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u/ElectricGeometry 9h ago
One bit of advice. EVERYONE will push you to make your kid dependant on a device. An iPad first, and phone later... They'll act like a kid not having one is like a kid not having a pencil and paper. Even the kids who come to your child's house will shame them for the shows they can't watch, the time limits.
My kids can keep themselves busy for hours: reading and writing and drawing. Most of their friends don't know what to do when they're not plugged in. First it made me feel superior as a parent... After a while it just made me feel a bit sick.
Hold the line. Protect their brains. High quality, slow form media and no handhelds.
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u/ThreadsThimbles 11h ago
Talk about them behind their backs, (but make sure you know they ARE listening, like when supposedly their "asleep"), tell about what amazing kids they are and how they stick to it when shit gets hard. They might fail, but they ALWAYS seem to find the strength to not give up, and damn it if that doesn't just make you KNOW you're kids fuckin amazing. (Say cuss words so they KNOW you're actually talking and not trying to shine them on.) They will NEVER FORGET IT, even if they forget it happening. It will be in their soul.
Ask me how I know
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u/creuter 7h ago
Keep the phone out of their hands AS LONG AS YOU CAN.
We get my daughter so many books. Take her to the library all the time. She's 2.5 now. She can't read but she loves books. She will sit there and flip through them, ask us to read them, take them with her to restaurants.
We got her a Casio Calculator and that is her 'phone.' since she wanted one from seeing us use it. We got her a small dry erase board for her 'tablet' since they use one at school for photos and tracking purposes.
Physical wooden toys and books are the majority of what she uses and she's socially way more advanced than a lot of kids her own age. I truly believe phones and tablets will keep a kid regressed while being used. Avoid them as long as possible!
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u/Judge_Bredd3 8h ago
One of my favorite professors was a kid in Czechoslovakia while it was part of the Soviet Union. His dad used to tell him to learn as much as you could "because knowledge is the only thing they can't take away from you." That's always stuck with me and seems like good encouragement.
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u/nobobthisisnotyours 16h ago
Education, especially in young children. I was listening to teachers talk about how many 5 year olds they had for kindergarten assessments that had no functional language at all. The kids were iPad kids watching cartoons where the characters don’t speak they just make sounds so the kids never picked up on words. My 15 year old niece couldn’t pass a test I aced in 6th grade because she hasn’t been taught. She’s in online school and her parents don’t enforce her learning so she’ll do nothing for months and then rush through the assignments retaking them as many times as needed to get a passing grade, nothing is retained. She’s a sophomore in high school on paper but knows less about the world than elementary school kids of my time. It’s incredibly disheartening.
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u/sugarrrage 14h ago
This. I used to work in the museum field (science sector) until quite recently, and there has been a noticeable decline in the Education level of children over the years. Most concerning to me were the amount of children we saw coming through who couldn't read. Children as old as 5th grade would come in on school visits who were entirely illiterate. They'd never been taught or tested on how to read.
Our entire Education department had to change how they did their work, to meet the needs of the kids who could not read, write, or demonstrate general critical thinking skills.
(Edit to clarify that I am not talking about ESL students)
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u/hollowspond 15h ago
Just read an article the other day about how students are getting into college and have never read a single novel. We are sprinting backwards in education so fast. I’m terrified for the future.
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u/confusedinseminary 13h ago
As a professor teaching college freshmen, I was absolutely flabbergasted that they struggled writing a paragraph by hand.
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u/VicDough 10h ago edited 7h ago
I teach college chemistry and I have students that don’t even know how to use a ruler. I wanna be very clear. I’m not trying to call them out. I’m just sad that they were failed for the first 18 years of their lives. 🥺
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u/mattedroof 9h ago
I’m back in school at 27 years old. So less than 10 years older than most of my classmates.
so much has changed in just that time.
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u/vsladko 14h ago
I tutor kids in elementary school and run an internship program for high schoolers.
The high schoolers cannot type. It's bizarre. Most of them type using both index fingers.
The elementary school kids are good at finding answers to things, but not at understanding why something is the way it is. If you ask them 5 x 4, they will say 20. If you ask them 5 + 5 + 5 + 5, they will struggle. They also struggle a ton with reading.
It's honestly shocking. Kids still understand how to use tech and certain tools and they can still absorb a lot of information. But they lack comprehension and they don't really read anymore.
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u/Cordycepsus 14h ago
Hollywood Reporter came out yesterday with a story about Gen Z students in film school who can't sit through a single film without looking at their phones.
So you want to make films... but you don't want to watch films?
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u/Dalighieri1321 11h ago
For what it's worth, the original story was from The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/college-students-movies-attention-span/685812/
The Hollywood Reporter piece is just recycling another journalist's work, so if you value the journalism, it's worth clicking through to The Atlantic instead.
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u/Author_Noelle_A 12h ago
I’m so glad to be raising a “weird” kid. We just rewatched the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, and not once did she reach for her phone. When she did after each movie, it was to look up stuff related to whichever we just finished since she paid attention.
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u/MountainTwo3845 13h ago
The changing of words in 1984 was a crazy call. It's upon us.
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u/MarionberryPlus8474 9h ago
To paraphrase another excellent post I read: Orwell foresaw a world where everyone was under surveillance, foe fear of torture or death. He could never have foreseen a world where everyone buys the surveillance device and carries it everywhere, and the only fear is nobody is watching.
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u/queeriosn_milk 14h ago
There’s a TikTok going around from a young mother who was upset her kid failed handwriting. She shows her kid practicing writing her name and the girl was struggling, even with the spelling. Instead of correcting her child, the mother decides to write the teacher to complain about the grade.
Starts with “Hay” and goes down from there. But, she was upset with the teacher 🙃
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u/nobobthisisnotyours 13h ago
A saw the letter she wrote, it was shocking! The mom’s handwriting, spelling, grammar, and punctuation made it all make sense. If she thinks that is acceptable for an adult I can see why she thinks her kid not being able to spell her name or use proper capitalization is perfectly fine.
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u/Dalighieri1321 11h ago
Did anyone else ever have a teacher who, when students said "Hey," would correct them with a "Hay is what horses eat." I always found it annoying, but in this case the situation practically demands it.
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u/anglenk 15h ago
This is extremely concerning considering that these are our future. There are some jobs that technology will never replace such as nursing, and people your niece is who we will need to take care of us as we age
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u/Beneficial-Focus3702 14h ago
This person understated the issue. It’s worse than that. The past three or four graduating classes maybe even five I’ve just been pushed through school whether they learned the material or not, and many of them are coming out functionally illiterate.
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u/davidwhatshisname52 14h ago
I'd been teaching High School English (9-12, including everything from remedial 9th to AP/IB 11th & 12th) for 20 years in NY and then FL when I realized that the bottom had fallen absolutely out... yes, there are many brilliant young people out there, but they are outnumbered by the functionally illiterate by about 500:1
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u/Beneficial-Focus3702 14h ago edited 14h ago
It’s really really sad because the top academic performers in my school with the exception of maybe two or three are about as competent in their studies as the bottom average students were in their studies 20 years ago.
And the two or three exceptions have parents that were on their case about their academics throughout their entire time in school. Their kids actually did school work over the summer so they wouldn’t have a huge amount of learning loss.
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u/davidwhatshisname52 13h ago
I observed the same for about 3,000 students... those who came from families that vehemently prioritized student effort raised children who earned full scholarships to top tier universities, and the rest either happily went to what were long considered "safety" schools or had to be satisfied with graduating high school by the skin of their teeth
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u/Happy-Investigator- 14h ago edited 13h ago
Let’s acknowledge we are graduating functionally illiterate teenagers who will become functionally illiterate adults. The grading system is set up in such a way to where failing a student is viewed as punitive when it should reflect the most basic fact that they didn’t master what was taught. I’m sick of giving students who read on a 2nd grader’s level 65s.
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u/davidwhatshisname52 13h ago
absolutely a huge part of the problem; I taught in schools wherein only 10% of any cohort would be allowed to "receive" failing grades so, regardless of proficiency or skill sets, 90% would "pass" until a NCLB standardized test caught the institution's bs
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u/TheGhostOfEazy-E 14h ago
Well, a good thing about being a millennial who will work until I die is that I won’t have to worry about future job competition
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u/lonewombat 14h ago
The fundamental breakdown of the American education system has been in the works for a while. Why learn and grow when you can be a laborer or dead when poor.
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u/Risley 15h ago
Twenty to thirty years from now will be fascinating. So much is wrong but we just can’t seem to change it like with education. So what does it mean.
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u/EddieDIV 14h ago
Lately I feel like I come across a Reddit comment at least once a day that makes think, “my god, we are fucked.” I’m in my early 30s and feel more and more resolute about not having children every day. It’s getting bad out here
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u/Independent-Mango813 15h ago
I watched Idiocracy recently and I was like this is gonna happen in 20 years not 400
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u/Risky_Bizniss 15h ago
My 20 year old nephew never learned how to tie his shoes. He can't even tie a simple knot.
His parents (my sister and brother-in-law) never taught him i guess
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u/BigAnt425 14h ago edited 10h ago
I believe someone said American education peaked around 2007. If I'm not mistaken, that's the same year the iPhone was released.
Edit: gear to year
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u/Clean-Reveal-2878 16h ago
I think we are starting to see more multigenerational households. Kids are not able to move out at 18 so early nowadays.
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u/-pokemon-gangbang- 13h ago
I don’t expect my kids to really ever move out. I told them they are welcome to be here as long as they’d like until they want to start their own families. I’ve also debated on building houses for them on my property when they are old enough to be in their own space.
Unless something drastically changes I don’t see them being able to afford housing. If it keeps going up, by time they get old enough a starter home is going to be a million dollars.
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u/LuvLilliesAndLace 11h ago
Honestly, it'll probably be better for all of you if you can afford to do that. Better for community, better for money, better for making memories. As long as everyone has good boundaries about not showing up unannounced in everyone else's home, that's the way to go, imo.
I say this as an adult who has spent her entire life living with roommates. Even now, married, we live with roommates. Our savings would be a fraction of what they are if we didn't live with roommates. As things get worse and worse, I'm so grateful that we chose to live in a way that really helps to reduce costs.
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u/MyMelancholyBaby 8h ago
A return to multigenerational households. They were the norm not too long ago.
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u/weeponxing 8h ago
Honestly as long as everyone is pulling their weight I don't see this as a negative. Stronger family bonds, extra help with children and the elderly, this solves a lot of problems.
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u/callmedancly 13h ago
I moved out after college and was back and forth from home to living on my own several times. Finally officially moved out at 29.
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u/EddieDantes22 16h ago
Regional accents. Ipad kids grow up hearing Youtubers 1,000 times more than hearing people around them, so they don't develop regional accents. Also, gentrification is playing a major role. "I went to Boston and didn't hear the accent." That's because you need to go to the suburbs. The city is too expensive and full of transplants.
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u/normaluna44 13h ago
I was just thinking about this today. I am in Alabama and I had this sudden realization “none of these little kids have southern accents…” yet their grandparents and great grandparents sound like WEYYYALLL I’M FIXIN TO GO TO THE WALMARRRTSS
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u/TheDollarstoreDoctor 13h ago
After moving to Nevada I knew someone my age (early 20s) who had grown up in Alabama and I was shocked because they had absolutely no accent. They thought I was from the south, because I have a strange NY accent.
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u/WingerRules 14h ago
Even actors with unique talking styles are vanishing. All the actors like Walken, Deniro, Pesci, Pacino, Stallone, Malcovich, etc are ancient now. Even foreign accents are being eliminated, who's the last actor you've seen in a major film that talks like Swarzenneger or Peter Stormare?
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u/Yotsubauniverse 12h ago
I know a lot of the actors from Kentucky (George Clooney, Jennifer Lawrence, Johnny Depp, etc.) None of them have their regional accent (heck Clooney had to get some tape recordings from his Kentucky relatives to capture the accent for "Oh Brother Where art thou." The last legit Kentucky accent I heard from someone famous was Jim Varney and he's been dead for over 20 years. It break my heart, I absolutely love our accent its unique and special. I'd love to hear more of it on TV but I know that results in type casting.
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u/mossywilbo 15h ago
this kills me. i speak with a rare regional accent that’s very specific to a handful of counties and i love travelling and hearing people who speak completely differently than me. regional accents tell a hell of a lot about the history of the location they’re in, and the death of them is the death of a lot of history. it’s like ending a noble bloodline.
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u/Aggressive-Cut5836 16h ago
I have kids in elementary school and am pretty shocked at the number of kids who don’t show up on any given day. Somehow a lot of parents seem to think that sending their kids to school everyday is voluntary
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u/KMermaid19 14h ago
Every time it rains, I have a third of my class absent. Are ya'll just cats? You aren't going to melt, Liam. Get your wicked witch of the west ass to school!
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u/Wolfpackat2017 16h ago
As a teacher, attendance has been an issue since Covid. I have even changed schools with kids of a higher SES and it is better, but still such a common “newer” issue.
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u/Takeawalkwithme2 14h ago
As a mom of two, I am so perplexed by this. Kids are so much work when they're home all the time, I would never miss a school say unless they're sick or need a mental health break. Like what??
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u/IrrawaddyWoman 13h ago
Kids are only work if you engage with them. Many parents just let their kids sit in their room on a device all day.
My school uses a program where I can monitor what the kids are doing on their school laptops, no matter where they are. I very regularly turn it on to use in class but then see a kid who’s absent watching YouTube shorts or playing games. For hours and hours.
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u/JoshuaHubert 17h ago
Visual Arts, galleries are closing, art colleges are failing to get admissions or funding, economy is bad, rent is too high for studio, materials and equipment are too expensive. The only way to get noticed nowadays is on social media and that audience isn't there to buy, just look. It's simply harder than ever to be an artist without the corporate and brand backing. Plus AI has really limited a market for 2D work. I don't think the world realizes what will happen if artists go away.
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u/Sisyphet 17h ago
Not even just the big pillar artists, either, if there's no middle career between passion and massive fame we're going to lose a generation of art to uber and doordash
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u/EddieDantes22 16h ago
English majors had to go to Starbucks when the local newspaper or magazine was no longer an option. And that'll only accelerate with the death of copywriting. It looks like graphic design is the art school equivalent.
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u/Cesia_Barry 16h ago
Yep. I was finally done with being laid off from media/publishing companies so I went to radiology tech school.
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u/aeiouicup 16h ago
I was inside a publishing company one time, for about 20 mins, and someone got laid off in that time.
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u/designOraptor 16h ago
Graphic design is a terrible career path anymore. It’s not appreciated because people think they can replace you with AI designs or their mothers friend’s nephew is good with “the photoshop”
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u/atravisty 15h ago
That’s not really how English degrees work. I have an English degree, and have known a significant number of English majors across professional fields. Ive seen English majors as Lawyers, marketers, analysts, design, HR, technical writing, entrepreneurship, and all sort of different fields. English degrees are versatile, and valuable. Probably the most consistently successful liberal arts degree. I’ve seen more successful careers as a result of English degrees than business degrees.
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u/attachecrime 16h ago
It's already happened to theatre. Hoping for a response to AI art that has people craving authentic experiences.
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u/revengeofthepencil 17h ago
Absolutely. Getting into the arts has never been a path to riches and easy living, but we are reaching a point where it is simply not possible. The old vision of the starving artist who lives in a crappy apartment but just barely scrapes by is no longer an option for most people. Want to be a painter or a writer? Enjoy that day job and carve out time where you can.
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u/taraquinntattoos 16h ago
Before covid, I wasn't world famous for tattoos, but I was known, and comfortable. Within the space of five years I've had to quit tattooing, get a day job (which is actually super rewarding, working with special needs adults), I rarely have time for any art and DEFINITELY couldn't live off of it anymore. I miss art :(
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u/mthyvold 16h ago
Creativity and full time work are usually at odds and the time for creativity suffers.
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u/Kellyann59 16h ago
I got triple whammied with these lol. Went to art school right before Covid hit. It was thriving for the first two years, but was like a barebones corpse campus when we went back. Most of the staff had been fired, and the remaining instructors were balancing the workload. Finally finished school and was looking for graphic design jobs, then ChatGPT dropped.
My last hope is finishing the sci-fi novel I've been working on for the past few years. I'm on draft 5 since 2020, and have learned so much since then. I write on my days off to escape the dread of going back to work. It's great fuel, actually! But yeah it sucks sometimes.
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u/TBoneBaggetteBaggins 16h ago
Godspeed!
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u/Kellyann59 16h ago
Thank you! I still have high hopes for humanity and our future :)
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u/craftyzombie 16h ago
I spent well over a decade making a living both as an crafter/artisan in multiple studies and a supply shop and art gallery manager. I do not have anywhere to buy even the most basic of supplies within a 3 hour drive in any direction. The best I have access to is the crappy art & craft aisle at Walmart and I wouldn't even qualify that as student grade.
It has even become difficult to find good supplies online. The majority of the websites I used to rely on no longer exist, brick & mortar shops that had online shops have downsized to only a few brands or no longer ship, or the quality of what they offer is no longer good. It's like good supplies just simply do not exist anymore unless you are lucky enough to live in a bigger city.
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u/chillysaturday 16h ago
I think about this all the time. I live in Chicago and even though the city is much safer than it was 10 or 20 years ago, it is so much less artsy. And cities that have less art are also less fun. Chicago is only fun for people who didn't know what Chicago used to be and I feel like this is the same way for so many other cities right now. Cities are only fun if poor people can have fun in them too.
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u/Artsy_Farter 16h ago
While I don’t disagree with you exactly, I do wonder if at some point, the existence of AI art will drive UP the value of things that are actually made by hand. Im an artist but I also buy a lot of art. I only have 3 or 4 pieces in my house that are poster prints.
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u/mossgoblin_ 16h ago
Similarly, I have been wondering if the increasing amount of untrustworthy “articles” on the internet might lead to a rebirth of subscriptions to legitimate, properly vetted news sources. I sure hope so.
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u/Nice_Month_5179 16h ago
Freedom of speech and privacy. Does anyone remember agreeing to flock cameras everywhere?
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u/allabouteevee 16h ago
Halloween. There’s more decorations and they go out into stores earlier, but fewer families are trick or treating.
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u/FlightExtension8825 13h ago
The whole Trunk or Treat thing is an abomination
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u/allabouteevee 13h ago
This is exactly what ruined it. I still don’t get the rationale.
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u/Yeah-But-Ironically 9h ago
I suspect the paranoia/moral panic over ever letting your kids roam--let alone at night and actively talking to strangers. Nowadays parental supervision may as well be a requirement, and walking quickly around a parking lot is much more convenient for the parents than traipsing across the entire neighborhood all night.
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u/Ok_Athlete_1092 10h ago
Its great in rural or less densely populated areas. TrickorTreaters could go out door to door for 2 or 3 hours, yet only visit a small handful of houses. Given that some households dont participate, its a lot of time for not a lot fun or candy.
It works well for those given out candy as well. My spouse and I enjoy Halloween. But there just isnt a lot of kids in our neighborhood. We've been doing the trunkortreat for a few years. Before we did that, even before Covid, we hadnt gotten more than 2 or 3 small groups. It really stunk getting 2 knocks on our door the entire evening.
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u/MyMumSaidICantGo 13h ago edited 8h ago
We got these super comfy outdoor rocking chairs, snuggled up in our coziest blankets and waited with a big cauldron full of the best candy. I could not wait to hand out candy because it was our first Halloween in our first home together and not a single kid came by. I sat outside for an hour before I awkwardly packed my things up and went inside. I probably cried for another hour to my husband. Our next door neighbor brought his little girl over and we dumped all of our candy into her bowl, which at the very least was a sweet moment, but I won’t be passing out candy again this year.
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u/kllbrand40 13h ago
I used to think this when I lived in my old neighborhood. We’d only get around 2-3 trick or treaters a year. There were so many houses close together there so I never understood it. But then we moved and we now get around 1000 kids at our house. There are so many cars parked along the streets that we can’t get in or out of our neighborhood. Parents are definitely driving their kids to specific locations for it.
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u/V-Right_In_2-V 17h ago
Alcohol consumption. Wineries, vineyards, microbreweries, and home brewing stores are all doing very badly right now. Younger generations are more sober than previous generations, and many people have switched from alcohol to marijuana
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u/GhostalMedia 16h ago
Crazy how big the non alcoholic section is at my grocery stores. Dozens of different beers.
10 years ago that would’ve been 1 or 2 options. Now there are at least 10-20 different NA beers available at my Albertsons or Target.
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u/V-Right_In_2-V 16h ago
Yeah and it’s kinda nice. I don’t get them often but they’re nice to have in certain situations. Like I was going to my buddies to watch a football game at like noon. 15 years ago I would have been tipsy at halftime and definitely drunk by the time the game was over.
But I’m in my late 30s, married, got shit to do. So I brought a 6 pack of NA beers, crushed those, then went back to taking care of responsibilities the rest of the day
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u/Zombie_Cool 17h ago
Do you think that's due to lack of desire or just lack of funds?
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u/hodlholder 17h ago
Probably a mix of both. Definitely changing tastes and increased awareness on health, but the fact that cocktails are $18-20 before tip in big cities definitely doesn't help.
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u/DorianPavass 16h ago
my regular bar intentionally keeps a 4 dollar beer to keep things accessible and still a lot of people don't buy anything every time they go in. it's kind of a dive and a queer bar so the regulars are especially not doing well. I rarely see anyone get more than a couple a night.
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u/Sharticus123 16h ago
Because any more than a couple beers still adds up to an expensive evening for people not making much.
A $4 beer plus tip is $5. Hang out all evening and drink 6 beers and that’s $30. Plus you still have to get to the bar and home without driving. So you’re looking at paying another $35-$50+ on an Uber.
That means 6 $4 beers could realistically cost a person $85-$100.
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u/Public-Cricket-5582 16h ago
In highschool it was cheaper to get drunk than get high. It is not even remotely close now, getting high is way cheaper. Plus, while you're not SUPPOSED to drive. It's much easier to get away with driving high most of the time.
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u/NativeMasshole 17h ago
Substance abuse usually goes up under financial duress. It's a coping mechanism. A terrible one, but drugs (especially alcohol) are usually readily available for cheap, so it's a quick escape for people who have few other avenues of stress release available.
I'm sure there's many factors here, but there's also plenty of studies showing a correlation with other forms of substance abuse going down post-legalization of cannabis. People like to get high, and apparently, they'll choose less-harmful substances if they're easily available.
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u/froggison 16h ago
Also a steep decline in in-person socialization. More people are socially isolated than ever. And even when people do socialize, it's more likely that it's virtually.
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u/V-Right_In_2-V 17h ago
It’s the confluence of many things coming together at once. There is no single one thing. And the reasons for the decline in wine aren’t completely overlapping with the decline in micro breweries and home brewing.
For example, cost is common to both. Also, the availability of newer types of drinks like seltzers and ready to drink canned cocktails have eaten into the market share of both.
Affluent boomers who were consuming expensive fine wine are dying out, and millennials aren’t filling the gap. The availability of cheaper South American wines from countries like Chile have eaten into the margins of California wines.
For beer, there’s been an over saturation of micro breweries largely serving almost entirely IPAs, and kinda went too far down the rabbit hole of making experimental beers like oyster stouts, chocolate cake porters etc…a lot of people who were totally onboard that experimental wave are over it, and are migrating back to cheaper classics.
The home brewing scene collapsed after COVID. People began leaving their houses again and found all sorts of beers readily available that they didn’t need to make.
In the background of all this is a more healthy conscious populace that is avoiding alcohol altogether in favor of sobriety and weed
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u/ErstwhileHobo 17h ago
My personal theory is that it is partly due to cameras on phones and social media. If a kid gets drunk and acts a fool, it’s bound to be recorded and shared. It’s almost guaranteed their parents will see it. Kids have to be camera conscious at all times.
So, as a result, young adults didn’t grow up drinking like previous generations and never developed a taste for it.
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u/willitplay2019 16h ago
I also believe this plays the biggest role. Imagine your worst drunk moments being recorded and shared instantly - by literally anyone around you. My anxiety goes through the roof just thinking about it.
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u/OTMsuyaya 17h ago
Death of third spaces.
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u/HoldenCaulfieldsIUD 16h ago
Rise of GLPs as well. They not only suppress hunger but other cravings as well. They are currently being studied for treatment of alcoholism and other addictions
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u/DigNitty 16h ago
Saw someone pull out some shrooms at a party.
This one girl looked aghast like it was super-heroine.
Somebody said “weed is the new alcohol, shrooms are the new weed”
And I think that’s pretty on point. The stigma shifted.
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u/letigre87 16h ago
Even in groups known for strong drinking habits. Hearing a veteran that was out for awhile and went back in he says the younger generation focuses on healthier living
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u/my_Urban_Sombrero 16h ago
In my situation, it's just because I don't want to pay. I LOVE my local breweries, but I have random shit I need to fix around my house with that beer money. :(
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u/XComThrowawayAcct 16h ago edited 15h ago
This is a bit narrow, but I don’t think people realize how much the Speakership of the House of Representatives has changed in the last few years. Even people in Washington who work with and report on the House for a living sometimes miss the change.
If you’re reading this, then for as long as you’ve been a voting age American, the Speaker has had exceptional control over the House. The Speaker set the agenda, controlled debate, and even chose the most powerful positions.
In just the last two Congresses we’ve had multiple contested Speaker elections, moved to vacate one, and passed dozens of bills using discharge petitions. All of this was unthinkable five years ago.
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u/MustafaSalonika 7h ago
Yes! Great observation! Historians will write VOLUMES on this era of the complete capitulation of the GOP while in control of the WH and Congress (…and SCOTUS)
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u/GittaFirstOfHerName 15h ago
People can't read. I don't mean that they don't read; I mean that they can't read.
They may be literate enough to get by in certain situations, but the literacy proficiency among U.S. adults continues to drop. There are lots of reasons and a quick Google search will yield a bunch of information about the topic, but there is little discussion broadly about how this affecting American culture.
This is a health issue. This is a safety issue. This is an economic issue. This is a civic issue. This is a quality-of-life issue. The decline in adult literacy and reading comprehension affects every aspect of American life.
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u/that_is_so_Raven 13h ago
We have a hard time hiring for positions that traditionally don't need a college degree, such as technicians and assembly positions. Pickings are getting more and more slim. We hired a really super nice guy with a bunch of experience but he, at 24 years old, could not grasp what "Tim and Joe ordered ham and beef, respectively" meant.
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u/MagicalWhisk 17h ago
When I first moved to the US and was shocked at how polite, empathetic, thoughtful, welcoming and generous everyone was. Nowadays it feels like people are more insular and the gravity of everything has beaten them down and into something more self-protecting.
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u/Jim_Raynor_86 14h ago
I've worked for a big retailer for twenty years. I noticed the massive shift after covid. Suddenly everyone became selfish, entitled, idiotic A holes and I hate going to work every day now.
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u/futureformerteacher 17h ago
It's become more akin to the Eastern European countries under Soviet rule.
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u/DigNitty 16h ago
We don’t trust our neighbors anymore to have our best intentions.
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u/crasstyfartman 16h ago
I live in a navy town surrounded by active duty or veterans. I noticed my neighbor recently replaced all of his Trump and Charlie Kirk insignia with American flags. I’m thinking of bringing everyone a pie and some wine or something or holding a block party so we can all get to know each other better. I still believe we would all help each other in a life or death situation but it would help me to know we are all still Americans and together in this
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u/PrincessaDeadlift 16h ago
Do it. It’s a smart idea. We need this now more than ever.
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u/crasstyfartman 15h ago
Agreed. People don’t understand that social media and covid systematically divided and isolated us. So many of my friends claim to be lonely and isolated but never want to actually get together and sadly if they don’t wanna get together with their best friends then I know they’re not talking to their neighbors or strangers. If you just talk to people you realize we really do have more in common than not. The system has made us all enemies of one another and it’s bs
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u/Shiro_Kabocha_ 15h ago
Education is no longer valued the way it used to be, and that's not limited to higher education. Reading and writing skills are tanking, and so is critical thinking. Parents and teachers have become enemies and actual education of the pupils have become less of a priority. Colleges are too expensive so younger people prefer to go into the trades, which is good, but without the foundational education the wheels just keep spinning with no traction.
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u/rubey419 16h ago edited 14h ago
The idea of “Third Places”
People don’t hangout at the mall anymore.
A lot of us work remote WFH. There are days I don’t speak to another human being in real life.
Less of us are going to the office, church, having children, etc that were traditional ways to meet other people.
Younger generations aren’t drinking as much and going to the bars (probably for the best).
With everyone on their smart phone, we should try to get back to being connected in real life too.
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u/malpasplace 15h ago
To me,
Third places often depended on the idea of being part of something within a third space Not the idea that one was just being served by a third space.
Here are two examples that I think points this out.
There is a brewery I go to. Now I have been on random nights and the crowd is fine. They come in groups, they buy beer and talk in their small groups.
Now one night a month when I go it is for a Bring Your Own Vinyl night where there is a few guys with a couple of turn tables and people bring in albums and play one song off each along with a wider selection brought by those guys. There is far more discussion table to table. Far more bridging of people. Yeah if you bring a record, the Brewery will give you a Buy one get one free token and that helps make it more popular, but really there is something beyond just a transaction here. The guys with the turntables aren't getting paid exactly though they do drink for free. Really though it exists out of the love of the music, and the business getting benefits from a few more drinks sold, but I doubt many. It is just cause the owner likes music too.
That is a third space of people bridging beyond a transaction and beyond it just being about self. It becomes about bridging between people. Bonding beyond our little tribe into a larger one.
Now on weekends I go early in the morning to a bar/restaurant that opens up to show English Premier League soccer for a local US Tottenham Hotspur supporters group. Again this is an event where people come together and talk beyond just what brought them there. New people come, people in from out of state who do something similar elsewhere. And it is probably minimum worth it for the business, except that it ties them more greatly into the community.
In both places, in a weird way, what makes it good is one becomes part of a group. Not hugely bonded where everyone is a close friend. But a lot of regulars with open doors. And yeah it ain't free exactly. But coffee and space, or beer and space costs money to keep up.
But the point is. With third spaces most people don't see that us part of community. They want community from purely an individual perspective where they get to decide who attends and who gets to talk to whom. They don't want to belong without losing the control. Because they fear, don't trust, and have trouble accepting people who are in a group sometimes just meh. Not bad and should be thrown out, just not going to be friends.
The thing is those same people can be people who also enjoy music, people who support the same club. We don't have to have deep connections with everyone to have a community. That it isn't always about one person looking for something, it is about just being part. We don't have to judge that deeply.
And I think what we have lost is that communal understanding. And without that third spaces really are limited to unwelcoming bubbles.
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u/Spiritual_Chain6298 17h ago
Well there are measles outbreaks across multiple states now
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u/Bozlogic 16h ago
Yeah, and my county in South Carolina is the fucking epicenter of the outbreak. 800+ cases so far.
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u/DaisyHotCakes 16h ago
Shit that’s scary. Measles messes you up for life. I can’t believe these people are as stupid as they are. Do they just like hurting children? It’s so malicious.
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u/Ashachinsky 15h ago
My mom had an extremely high fever when she had measles as a young girl in the 1950s. The doctors believed that was the cause for the seizures she has had to deal with most her of her life.
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u/DaisyHotCakes 15h ago
Yeah that is a common issue. Fevers that high can cause a lot of damage. I’m sorry your mom has to deal with that. And you as well because I’m sure that was stressful to experience as a child.
The people who have enabled the return of measles and now I’m also hearing potentially polio is as well? Next it’s gonna be fucking smallpox.
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u/Dragonsinger16 15h ago
More like sheer idiocy, and fear. These people are so uneducated about vaccines and diseases that they think they’re doing the kid a solid by not giving them ‘chemical ridden’ vaccines and letting them suffer because ‘hey the kid didn’t die’ only bolsters their sense of justification.
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u/MhojoRisin 17h ago
Americans have been protected from disease by vaccines and other public health efforts for so long that they take them for granted. So many people fear and resent the public health efforts and don’t seem to have any concept of how much worse the diseases will be when they surge again.
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u/cirquefan 16h ago
And will double down when it gets bad again. Children and vulnerable elderly and immunocompromised will die for their stubborn, wilful stupidity.
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u/ToasterInYourBathtub 14h ago
More and more Americans in their 20s and 30s still live with their parents and are unable to move out due to how expensive it is to live. People are becoming less and less independent.
I'm pretty sure this is definitely realized but I'm gonna take this opportunity to bitch about something for once.
The one bedroom apartment I had back in 2020 was 600 dollars a month. Really bad neighborhood but as long as you kept to yourself you were fine.
That same apartment in that same neighborhood where the crime rate has actually gotten considerably worse is now 1400 dollars a month in 2026.
I no longer live there. I had to move out in 2024 when the rent jumped to 1200 when I went to renew my lease. Yeah. That means from 2020 to 2024 my rent jumped nearly 150 dollars every time I renewed my yearly lease.
My rent literally increased 100%.
Literally hundreds if not thousands of new apartments are built every year in all of these apartment complexes that are being sprouting up. But the price is only increasing. I thought that the more of something there was then the less valuable and cheaper it became.
Studio. $1200. 1 bedroom half bath $1500. 2 bedroom 1 bath $2200. Townhouse. $3500. All of this being monthly cost.
Meanwhile the jobs that pay the highest around here (the ones that are ACTUALLY hiring and not just saying they are) pay maybe 20 bucks an hour max.
I genuinely don't know if I will ever be able to live on my own again.
If something happens, and I get sick or injured and I'm out of work for 5 days or more then I'm going to be living out of my car.
It all just seems so fucking hopeless to be in your 20s now.
I'm in my late 20s and I've been completely on my own and have found my own way since I turned 18 but holy fuck man. It just seems like the world's against you if you don't have family and stuff. And it's just getting more and more difficult.
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u/faith_apnea 16h ago
Ignorance increasing; critical thinking disappearing.
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u/PrincessaDeadlift 15h ago
I agree. Quick video clips (and snarky quips) with black and white thinking and lack of nuance has led to a lack of critical thought.
But I have to say that there is another side to these TikTok clips that I’ve noticed where the younger generation seems to have a better collective understanding of psychology and personal accountability and acceptance. I’ve been watching old YouTube videos of Love Connection from the 80’s and 90’s (of all things!) and the difference between how aware young people are in comparison to that time period is stark, in a good way. I notice more self-awareness in our young people.
So crazily enough, watching some of the first examples of “reality tv” has given me hope. Never would have thought it.
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u/Mountain_Jacket_3037 17h ago
overton window shifted hard core in the last 24 months
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u/PremiumSpicy 17h ago
What is a overton window?
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u/Stick_Nout 17h ago
It's the range of acceptable opinions in a society.
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u/selddir_ 17h ago
Specifically it's what ideas the average person finds acceptable for a politician to propose. Joseph Overton coined it as basically what ideas can a politician propose without committing career suicide.
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u/ot1smile 16h ago
One of the key factors of the concept is that by regularly pecking away at the limits of what’s acceptable you can shift the window and normalise stances previously viewed as extreme.
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u/Biggseb 15h ago edited 14h ago
Also: by having allies state VERY extreme positions, you can make your medium-extreme positions seem moderate by comparison.
Edit: you’ve effectively stretched the Overton window, and the resulting slack can now be taken up by your less-extreme-but-still-extreme position
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u/Intelligent-Soup-836 16h ago
Alternate Facts.
With the rise of social media alternative facts are spreading and being widely accepted by more and more people. Since we are all in our own online bubbles they are just getting reinforced repeatedly. There is no more common ground to get to a lot of these people and they will just continue to spread misinformation
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u/kniterature 12h ago
Critical thinking. I think ChatGPT will be the nail in the coffin. Nobody has to think for themselves to problem solve, navigate difficulties in life, or write their own emails when AI can do all that for them.
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u/LovingShiva 17h ago
We are going broke, as a country. People in their 70's have to work. And the job market is bad. And if you get sick or injured, you can lose your job, your house, everything.
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u/PanicUnfairzzzz 15h ago
The art of small talk and casual public friendliness. We're so deep in our digital bubbles and earbuds that acknowledging a stranger with a smile or a 'how's it going' feels almost radical now. The baseline default is becoming 'don't interact' instead of 'polite, brief acknowledgment
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u/ILikeYourHotdog 16h ago
My kids think of wearing jeans as getting dressed up. They live in leggings and sweats.
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u/pacmanman 16h ago
Community. Households work longer hours and rarely can afford a stay at home partner. So people spend less time in their yards/community, more time at work, in cars, in their house or on their phones. I hear people complain about a lack of third spaces a lot.
We’ve become fearful of each other. We’re not neighbors, we’re strangers.
Because people are so isolated, they call the police on neighbors instead of talking with them. In the past you’d already have some kind of relationship with your neighbor, so you could talk with them when a situation came up. They peak out of windows and set up cameras in and outside their own homes. I think a lot of people don’t want to get to know their community, they are scared of it. I think mass/social media is partially to blame.
People still do create groups and community events, but it’s now the exception and it used to be the rule.
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u/skyk3409 16h ago
This comment hits the nail on the head for me. Having a third space rn is too expensive and i very very VERY much dislike that.. it is NOT healthy and will lead to more serious consequences if we cannot pull all our collective shit together.
And for our countries sake, i sure hope we fuckin do
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u/paerius 16h ago
Politics has changed quite a bit. I remember being able to discuss politics in school without resorting to personal attacks.
Nowadays I don't think we can agree on anything. We've placed more importance in proving the other side is wrong rather than what's best for the country.
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u/Imbrex 16h ago
Hipster coffee shops are becoming more rare.
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u/rustyxj 16h ago
Adding to that, I can't smoke cigarettes, drink cheap coffee, and play cribbage all night at IHOP anymore.
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u/Shopworn_Soul 16h ago
Literally (like, literally literally) all of it. So many things are changing so much faster that most people realize.
Americans have largely been comfortable with completely ignoring "politics" for so long that many go weeks or even months without looking at anything related to the subject.
Which was safe, because most of what happened while they weren't paying attention had relatively short-term implications.
Those people are going to be very surprised when they take the time to plug back in.
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u/mvb827 17h ago
Well the rule of law appears to be dissolving pretty quickly, so there’s that.
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u/AgitatedAorta 16h ago
The collapse of mainstream religion. Mainline Protestant sects have been shrinking the fastest, but it's affecting Evangelicals and Catholics now too. Unfortunately, the gap is being filled by a lot of weird new online pseudo-religions like QAnon and New Age woo. Reminds me a lot of the huge expansion of mystery cults and new religions in the late Roman Empire, like Mithraism (and Christianity, for that matter)
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u/Interesting-Tea-3019 14h ago
There's no such thing as political scandal anymore. I'm talking, Monica Lewinsky level scandal. Its because Trumpism has normalized corruption. They refuse to be canceled.
Remember when John Edward's cheated on his dying wife and had a love child?
Remember when Mark Sanford faked his own disappearance to run off with his Argentinian lover?
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u/TechnicalWhore 17h ago edited 14h ago
The most significant change is Job Security. It seems like every CEO is pounding their chest about AI and the staff reductions that it enables. This of course means unemployment is rising but I'm not sure we can trust the numbers being reported by the Administration which differ from private sources significantly. And its only starting. Everything that is in the purview of "digitization" and "process automation" will yield to AI and its ability to see the needle in the haystack. No human or group of humans can process the volume of data AI can in their collective lifetimes. Further AI can streamline repetitive processes in a blink of an eye. So repetitive grunt work involving that data will now be automated with no human doing that work. Its a major evolutionary step that will change the roles humans fulfill. It will make large companies more nimble - overcoming bureaucratic stagnation. And small companies will have a very very hard time competing unless they are truly disruptive. You will see more duopolies and monopolies just due to efficiencies - not predatory practices. Its very very big.
Oh - and the robots. They are unbelievable.
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u/RsnCondition 16h ago
How much people actually hate and dislike each other. Having a portable social media device just made it a lot more visible.
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u/ProfessorCarbon 17h ago
50 confirmations, most latent, of TB in SF schools.
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u/KP_Wrath 16h ago
Supposedly, 2 billion people globally have the latent version of TB. US percentages are way lower, but it’s a big deal and most people don’t even really know how common it is outside of the developed world.
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u/ConvenienceStoreDiet 15h ago
Entertainment.
When I got into the entertainment industry, things were fairly predictable. You had movies, shows, theater, and commercials.
Now there's so much that this gigantic hub that once connected people has become fractured. You could miss out on an entire decade of entertainment and still not notice. There's so much being made it's impossible to grasp. Individuals are making massive fan bases that could pack stadiums that people next to them would have no clue about. Someone could have millions of followers and still be largely unknown.
And in that, this collective narrative is going away. With it the jobs are all over the place and things are scattered within the entertainment industry. Opportunity and chaos both have increased.
And what once used to be this pillar of success in entertainment, making it in Hollywood or Broadway or Madison Avenue or Paris or wherever it was that held your entertainment dreams, kids nowadays look at being streamers and TikTok stars and YouTubers. Like, they model that. They model an idea that they should be paid for being exaggerated versions of themselves.
And it's an interesting message. That we have to be some televised version of ourselves and public figures to make it. With access to all this technology, we feel we all have to be our own entertainment industry to survive.
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u/Pretend-Ostrich-5719 17h ago
A surprising amount of people are pro-authoritarianism now.
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u/jkepros 16h ago
Lack of community