31 Things That Have Gotten Worse Over Time.

Things that aren't like they used to be.

Published 3 years ago in Wtf

Things that aren't like they used to be.

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The quality of politicians in the United States. And most of the rest of the world. The majority are power hungry, money hungry people who shouldn't be representing the people of their country/state in the first place. The few good ones are powerless to do anything against the crooked majority.

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YouTube. 2 unskippable ads with every freaking video. And more throughout. I’m honestly surprised if there’s only 2.

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Life and perception. As i get older and learn more I consistently yearn for “the old days” but I’m not actually yearning for old days…I’m merely wishing I could go back to when I didn’t know anything about how life and the world actually operates. Youthful perception is usually more optimistic.

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The internet. I remember when it started. Bulletin boards were the s**t. Inspired, interested people from around the world talking. And then websites. Any fool could throw up some HTML and have a little website talking about their cat and their favourite video games. Java chat rooms. Flash games. Game forums. 4chan. It was the wild west. You could post anything, anonymously, view anything, freely. It's all gone now. And it's getting worse and worse.

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Disney World. They keep increasing the prices on everything, adding additional charges while cutting back on experiences. The guests are coming in with sh*ttier, more entitled attitudes because they've paid so much. You can't just go to any park on any day during your visit, you need to make a park reservation for each park you want to visit before you go, an extra hoop to jump through on your vacation - wasn't this supposed to be relaxing? The free complementary FastPass system has now become paywalled into the Genie+ system, (which is extra ghoulish because Robin Williams never wanted the Genie to be used for marketing purposes). You can now use the "lightning lane" to get on rides faster... For a price. And without that lightning lane access, you'll have to wait hours in line, meaning you get on less rides during your visit. The whole experience just sucks now. It used to be fun and relaxing... Now it's just anxiety inducing.

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The cost of living in the UK. I'm still working the same job I was five years ago, and my partner has actually had multiple promotions so our incoming money has, if anything, gotten better. But whereas five years ago we were able to pay all the bills, get what the kids needed and still have a little spare for luxuries like meals out / family trips, now we are failing to make ends meet even with multiple cut - backs. We've cancelled everything non-necessary, the kids can't even go to their dance classes or after school stuff anymore, we have got my 74 year old grandma helping out with childcare and we're raiding the discount section of food stores for bargain meals most weeks. It's not great being here at the moment.

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I work in healthcare and I would have to say the hospitals themselves have gotten progressively sh*ttier. It’s at the point that I would not want to get sick and have them take care of me. Hospitals are purely trying to make as much profit as possible and it is at the expense of the hospital staff and patients. It’s honestly horrifying.

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Google. It's so hard to search for anything, even if you use quotes and boolean operators you get garbage results almost entirely unrelated to your query. It used to be much better years ago.

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The quality of furniture. Unless you want to spend $10k, you cant really get something that will last 50+ years.

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Cinema in general. One crappy remake of a 1980s movie after another, and live action remakes of s**t that was popular in the 80s and 90s. Cinema peaked back then, and now it's just ripoffs and sh*tty remakes as far as the eye can see.

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America/western world humanity. Despite people being annoyed at the ‘woke’, actual value of the individual and respect to an enjoyable and ‘free’ life is deteriorating in western societies. I mean look at ‘quiet quitting’, people are being told they’re soft and not hard working for wanting fair hours and work loads. Americans need to work for 75-80% of their waking life to afford to survive. Other countries it’s still around 35-45%. That’s unreasonable. We should be finding ways for everyone to have more leisure time and less ‘productive’ time in our finite lives. Here in Australia it’s been announced that the government is letting retired aged people work more hours, to make ends meet. Not raise the pension- ‘let’ them work more- when they’re retired- from working…

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Perception of people as you grow up. When you’re a little kid, you think adults can fix things. Then, as you get older, you realize that they don’t fix things very well.

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Advertisements. Not only the quality of advertisements, but frequency has skyrocketed. For example, when you watch a basketball game, these m***********s put an ad in between free throw attempts. Everything is presented by Company XYZ, everything has some sort of advertisement connected to it, and it is infuriating.

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Halloween Decorations. Used to be able to buy metal gates, concrete/plaster tombstones, and many other creative decorations that would last you several years - maybe even decades. Now all you can get are flimsy styrofoam and plastic tombstones meant to last only one Halloween (looking at you, Spirit Halloween)

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Restaurants. The really nice ones have maintained a high standard, but the middle of the road places have really tanked in terms of service and food quality while jacking up prices. It’s just not worth it to eat out unless you’re either just going for cheap bar food or going out somewhere really nice.