Is life hard compared to our parents generation?
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our parents gen had to wait for 6 months to get a simple telephone. a scooter had a waiting time of 3 years. they got food from ration shops. there was no schedule to when what item would be supplied. people had to wait till midnight in line to get kerosene. Train tickets had to be booked physically from the boarding station. Till 2000 people stood in queues to book a train ticket at designated railway counters. There was no jobs like what we have now. Till late 80's cement was a restricted commodity. meaning, you needed influence to get cement. Income tax rate highest slab was 97%, till 80's. One had to take license for everything. To setup a cottage industry to big factory everything., you needed a license. The license will also specify the maximum output you can produce. Beyond that its illegal. Meaning, get ready to grease the palms of babus. There was no home loan. There was no vehicle loan. Taking a loan was looked down upon. These are some things i can recollect reading somewhere.
The worst the gen z has is work 5 days a week. And most of them crib about toxic work culture. Unfit for anything other than crying all the time about "wanting to follow their passion" or " am an introvert don't know how to talk to girls" or " i need therapy".
Remember the saying " strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times". This genz are the weak men.
Aren't you contradicting yourself? "Weak men create hard times" implies it's harder for us than our parents. Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.
Your comment doesn't take into account the drastic changes that happened in the media of exchanging information compared to the previous generations.
social addiction, depression, anxiety induced by "successful look how great my life is" influencers, how just simply being productive is hard as fck because of ever decreasing attention span. Parents didn't have this, which meant it was easier to focus, lesser distractions, healthier mental health.
Maybe it was harder for women in previous generations due to social stigma but that's another debatable topic.
A lot of apps/websites today are digitalized cocaine, and are also legal so there are no boundaries.
Good times create weak men. These are good times that are creating weak men. The times are so good that people fall into depression so easily, just by looking at influencers.
Techies are the biggest cry babies after doctors in this country now.
No competition is much more now.
Its just we have many technical things which make our life easy like car ac and others
Yes
Getting a loyal wife... Sure 100% Rest everything.... No
Life is what you make out of it. If it's hard, lower your expectations. If it's easy, increase your expectations. At the end, it's all in your head on whether you think it is hard or not. With current generation, everything comes quickly and with comfort so the question is how do you manage it. And at the heart of it is your expectations and how you manage it. That drives your happiness, your ego and what you want out of life.
My old professor used to say "there is no comfort in the growth zone and no growth in the comfort zone". So which one are you truly in after your own self-awareness? Bet it's the latter as you have more comfort nowadays compared to the past.
No But we both have different set of problems
Like my father was never able to have good fruits because they were very poor and my dad used to say we used to hide Namkeen in the locker because it was only reserved for the guests also girls and women had very much restrictions
Now we have different problems like finding a decent partner, finding good friends but also now women can work freely compared to earlier generation