What fact about modern society makes you sad?

1. Basic research nowadays is as easy as coming up with the question. You don't need to go to the library, find an encyclopedia, or anything. Just Google it. Yet there's still people who are ignorant and lack curiosity, and don't even give a shit about actually looking up facts.
   — remarkabl-whiteboard


2. People don't give a shit about their online privacy anymore.
   — Schuerie


3. I have was around 14 when the internet came about (prodigy and aol). My parents would always tell me I'm wasting my time talking to people that I gamed with (quake mostly) and being on the computer. I still talk to friends from way back then and have met most in real life many times. But nowadays when I am with my parents and family who were not happy about my internet use, they are always on their phones on Instagram or Facebook and I'm trying to engage them. Oh the irony.
   — paravis






4. sometimes having talent doesnt mean shit sometimes people just dont take help when there is plenty
   — xxxleo89xxx


5. Someone hit my brother this weekend when he was riding his bike home from work. They fled the scene. After whatever amount his crappy insurance covers, hes going to end up with at least a couple grand in medical bills. Because someone ran him over.
   — happyeight


6. I fucking hate seeing homeless people. It's sad. It really fucking is. We're one of the wealthiest countries on the planet. We could solve this in a year if we truly wanted to. And sure, there'd be people who just refuse to work. But I think there's a good number of people in that subset of our population who would appreciate a job and a home.
   — Commander_Shepard_






7. That most people that have existed had never even heard of the awesome foods we can eat at anytime. Alexander the great probably never had a burrito or french fries. That's sad.
   — Averysmallmoose


8. How divisive politics are. Instead of considering that we are all on the same team, rooting for the same country, a not-so-small portion of both sides I've actually heard calling for death on the other side. Politics are volatile, vitriolic and violent, and no one seems to care to see any humanity on the other side. So instead of finding any middle ground or electing any moderate politician, we keep voting in people leaning further and further from the center, and further alienating people on the other side of the spectrum. All of this just to see it all uprooted four years later, everything undone, rules and laws repealed; until four years later, when the other side has had enough, brings in their guy to repeal and replace all those other laws that just came into effect. A never ending cycle, with no real advantages or gains, just a constant push and pull with no end in sight that does nothing for it's actual citizens other than feeling like you're "winning" every four out of eight years. Yet time passes, the world keeps advancing, and we're stuck here standing still in our big game of tug-of-war.
   — xekushnr


9. Parents using tablets to baby-sit children.
   — MrPillock






10. The number of people who are so personally invested in any given topic to the point where they can't admit they are wrong and should just get a hobby saddens me a great deal.
    — OfficialDiscoveryAMA