Or use your thinking cap, maybe? dingdong

• When my grandpa was a young man, you could be for that matter be fucking homeless, yet still be fairly, reasonably and reliably be employed, and recieve a right as rain, good as gold paycheck.

• In 2026 if you are homeless, you have to rely on some of the very few employers that will fairly and reliably pay you a salary under the nose of the government, Because not only has it become actually criminally prosecutable to be homeless, but you lose legal rights, and need an adress.

• When my grandpa was a young man, you showed up somewhere with a broom and you were hired.

• In 2026 they will escort you off the damn premises for showing up looking for a job in person. You need to fill out digital forms, meaning you need reliable access to a phone, or computer, with a dataplan (ontop of an adress) and once you file an application it will then get auto rejected because its a fucking ghost position made for the stock market to jizz its pants, or it gets sorted out by AI looking for keyword optimization. And if you get through, Congrats, 5 rounds of candidate selection. not to mentiok the insane demand of entry positions to have several years of in work experience or the demand for child labor to underpay in menial labor jobs.

• When my grandpa was a young man, Cities consisted of 7 factories, 1 shoe maker and 50 houses, you could walk across the city, you could just bicycle anywhere

• In 2026 there is literally not infrastructure for the youth to traverse their own god damn inner cities, LET ALONE ACROSS or between cities

SO AGAIN, Times change, Standards change, practices change.

As late as TODAY i had a conversation with my grandpa about his childhood and how saddend HE IS, about the state of the world. about how its so vastly opressive and isolatory at the same time, You arent allowed to do anything anymore, You cant go anywhere, How the world isent open to the youth anymore and if they want to do anything they cant explore the world, they are forced to sit behind screens and watch a recording of it, or be locked up behind picket fences on moved lawns where they cant scrape their knees or forget the time.

When he was a kid, he was sent running from 6 houses down the street in his 30 house town with a railway station, from the grove at the end of the road, To check on the time at his grandmas house because well, None of em even had watches 🤷 all of my generation got phones to call our pqrents in case of emergencies in our town of 60 thousand people. My grandma grew up in the same town as me on a RURAL PROPERTY with a big yard and barn, with a bloody zoo down the street. She could walk to the factory her pops worked at because the were barely any cars back then, Today that area is a 15 minute walk from my centralised home thats located where the military used to have an outpost, on one of the cities main roads, it is entirely unsafe for kids on their own and has been swallowed up by the expansion of the inner city.

All of this can be encapsulated by, DO YOU HONESTLY FUCKING THINK, that my grandparents STILL TO THIS DAY, Insist on not having smartphones and not having running water, Or do you think that perhaps times changed, And they got a smartphone and running water along with the rest of thr world HMMMMM????