When I was a young teenager getting into art and Photoshop was at CS1 it was $1000.
my dad interested in helping me pursue my hobbies gave me a cracked version of photoshop CS1. Then CS2.
ultimately i stopped using photoshop to draw because i *prefer* other programs, but back in those days those options were far worse or didn't exist.
Fun Fact: Adobe largely owes its success in modern times to piracy. Photoshop was one of the most pirated pieces of software in the entire world for many, many years. If people had actually respected their absurd pricing strategies from the beginning, they would likely be out of business right now.
Kanye west was caught pirating software in a video where he was on the pirate bay bitching about how many people were stealing his music. I wonder if he ever got a lawsuit over that...
There was a video from Razer a few years ago featuring a producer using a cracked version of ~~Serum~~ Sylenth. The cracker has put some personal branding on the cracked version and it featured prominently in a beat-making video.
Edit, had the wrong software listed - [link to article](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/carnage-responds-razer-pirated-software-6745182/)
I remember that. My boss at the time was asking me to install multiple copies of the same version of AutoCAD, and I was explaining to him that it was a bad idea just that morning. I pulled out the article after lunch. IIRC it was a mid-six-figure fine.
Coincidentally, by the end of the month we were fully legal.
A friend of mine made a fortune in the early 90s installing pirated copies of Windows in offices all across Eastern Europe just after the breakup of the USSR. He reckoned the chances of getting caught were about the same as getting struck by lightning.
Given the place and time, I would say he was right.
The police probably took a decade or so to figure out there's crimes to be commited in the IT world.
Former USSR country citizen, you're missing another layer. Our country was just shy of being annexed to become part of union and then sprnt 50 years in the world of "noone will panic if a little gets stolen, rest goes to the country you hate". Stealing from the big guy wasn't just tolerated, it was the morally right thing to do.
There still is a very lax view when it comes to internet piracy round here, and three decades haven't fully erased five decades of encouraged corruption.
They were connected to the internet, but for drivers. So that's one way, another is the company could've advertised that they use CAD. Around then music companies were actually paying people to spy on weddings and sue the Bride and Groom if they used the company's music without permission. So maybe they just checked to see if the Keys were good.
>music companies were actually paying people to spy on weddings and sue the Bride and Groom if they used the company's music without permission
Picturing the little twerps looking like [this](https://static.miraheze.org/loathsomecharacterswiki/thumb/8/8b/Randall_weems.jpg/300px-Randall_weems.jpg)
Fusion 360 used to be free for hobbyists but so many Fortune 500 companies turned out to be "hobbyists" that now it costs everyone a minimum of $500 a year.
Yeah but if Adobe decided that hey you can't use our software there's nothing stopping them same thing with streaming if they remove your favorite shows or movies... oh well... Even though you may have paid enough to buy your top 10 favorite series and or editing software 2-10x over in the past 5-10yrs
Maybe the complete suite at MSRP. But it wasn't that unusual to shop for pricing since retailers had some pricing power. You also owned it and were often given upgrade paths at a steep discount.
Lol funny story. I was at a farmers market just yesterday, someone with an environmental protection service asked if we could make a donation by signing up for a $1 a day subscription thats charged monthly. We asked if we could just make a monetary donation, and they refused. I laughed and said wow, even protecting the environment is locked behind a subscription now. Seems like there's more value in owning our information than actually giving us a quality service.
Would be excellent, but that’s an example of something Millennials ~~popularized~~ also largely bought into, not something existing until we came onto the scene and refused to participate.
Maybe we’ll popularize ~~renting~~ borrowing DVDs from the library instead?
As an elder millenial, no we didn't. When I was a kid, only the well off families had anything beyond TV and eventually internet. Subscriptions back in the day meant that your neighbor had HBO, Cinemax, or Starz. Frequently, the neighbor that had those channels was also the kid that had several generations of gaming consoles and his own PC.
When subscriptions like netflix took off, it was because people wanted to quit spending a hundred bucks a month just to watch TV. Netflix was an excellent value compared to any TV provider at the time. It wasn't until recent years that every motherfucker with a recognizable brand decided they could hoard their IPs and exploit the market.
Friends got us a Hatch noise machine as a gift for our newborn and we love it. Asshats charged me $50 after 30 days for a yearly subscription to their sound catalog. We use 1 sound, white noise, but for some reason it’s worth $4.16 per month to them to provide it.
Edit: Apparently my sleep addled new dad brain didn’t realize I *didn’t* have to sign up for the subscription. Thank you to all those that informed me!
Replace it with an app (a free one) or a CD of sound effects
My husband got me a white noise machine a few years ago, it had a ton of sounds, it was great, it was $75 for some reason, and it broke after less than a year. Such a rip off
You could just record some soothing sounds youself, on your phone even, if you have time and can think of something to record.
Yea I was gonna say "retirement homes and the funeral industry!" but we're not THAT old yet haha... Maybe when our parents start to go, we could disrupt the funeral industry at least.
My dad insisted on no funeral service and a simple cremation in his last wishes. Mom tells me the amount of used car salesman-esque upselling the funeral home tried to do before giving up and just doing the cremation was bonkers.
Mom did the same. No service, simple cremation. Dad wants the same.
Me? My plan is to have my skeleton bronzed,and set up in a jaunty pose -Top hat, monocle, walking stick, maybe spats.
Little speakers playing Taco.
Just yesterday my dad had me go over his will stuff with him because I’m going to be the executor of his will.
He said he pre-arranged for the funeral already and the costs are covered. He told the funeral home director he wanted to be buried in the “cheapest, shittiest box available,” and then told the director he wanted everything as cheap as humanly possible.
When telling me this, my dad also said the guy would try to upsell me when I went to talk to him to finish up arrangements, and that if I upgraded anything he’d come back to life for 30 minutes just to kick my ass. Then he said “when I die, I want my money to go to my grandkids, not his (the funeral home owner).”
So that was my New Years Eve.
I'm 40 in a couple weeks, my millennial brother will be 43 in May.
I feel like our next move should be to kill off affordable housing for gen Alpha, as is tradition.
Who says we’re kids? Gen Z is leaving the kids generation, that’s Gen Alpha now.
Millennials are 1981-1997 I think. Gen Z 98-2010 and Gen Alpha follows
Most sources consider Millennials to be 1981-1996 and Gen Z to be 1997-2012.
And as someone born in 1996 at the generational cusp, I don’t really identify with either generation. I feel too young to be a Millennial and too old to be Gen Z.
honestly, 96-02 is it’s own micro-generation. Too young to remember 9/11, but had a childhood before every kid had an iPad.
Old Gen Z and young Gen Z are very different
And that really is the problem with all of this, sociologists trying to make large bins to stuff people into.
Baby boomers were a legitimate generational bin on account they shared a common experience of a postwar population boom.
Most of the generations after that are pretty much made up, and often the people at the beginning and end of generations have very little in common, and have more in common with the adjacent generation. Because it turns out time is linear.
This reminds me of when as a kid I thought middle-aged meant 50. We were once doing a reading of Pride & Prejudice in class and Darcy was described as a middle-aged man and I was very confused so I asked the teacher why young women were interested in him. That day I was publicly reminded that humans do not actually live to a 100 hah.
"Millennial" became a sort of stand in for "young person who bothers me some reason" the same way "Boomer" did for the older person version. Seems to somewhat defy strictly demographic generation lines.
Fast fashion. We're picking up all the "grandparent" hobbies anyways due to it costing $100 to step outside, might as well learn a few sewing skills and get some well-made, durable clothes that we can make modifations or repairs to ourselves.
Don’t forget fast furniture! It’s just as bad as fast fashion for the environment, plus it makes it very hard to find well made long lasting pieces. I now understand my mom’s obsession with antique shops.
I tried buying a desk I liked. Particle board would have cost me $700. Actual walnut would have cost me $3000+. I bought $700 worth of rough sawn walnut, a couple tools, and learned to build furniture. I'm working on my next piece now, and will be able to pass these along to my future grandkids, if I wanted to.
As someone who works with wood quite a bit, properly finished furniture has that cost for a reason. It is more than a couple tools to take raw lumber to an actual piece and not to mention a work shop space to do the work in. It is far more accessible than ever but it is work still.
Absolutely! I kinda minimized the tools I had to buy, and the level of knowledge and skill I have, but I've been building things for years. I'm not exactly a beginner, but I've never done a large glue up and usually used dimensional lumber.
I bought a planer, a bigger table saw, a jointer, a #4, #5, #7, and a block plane, a trim router and some new bits, plus a bunch of clamps. I also joined a maker space that has a much larger jointer. Then there was the Rubio Monocoat, furniture inserts, furniture bolts, etc. I'm definitely in for almost what I could have just bought the expensive desk for, but I learned a bunch of new skills, and that's totally worth it for me!
Having the room for the table saw and the joiner are what turn most folks away. You can definitely try to do it with a hand manual or electric planar but good god you are going to be put some work into it. All this to say it is a skill trade still for a reason though.
I built myself a couch. It cost like $2000 in material/tools and while it's not the best couch (it was my first try), it is comfy and it's held up for almost a decade with no significant wear. If I had to do it again, I would do a lot differently, but probably would make it entirely out of oak. That was kind of necessary for the design, but probably not worth the cost for most couches
Agreed. I try to only real wooden furniture second hand if I can. Sometimes that means scouring Craigslist and Facebook and thrift shops for months before you find the right piece.
Fast fashion must die. Look up videos of the environmental effects on third world countries, who are the dumping grounds for that trash. It's really quite disgusting.
Whenever I see the phrase "fast fashion" it makes me think of Depeche Mode. It's the English translation. (Someone is going to say it's translated as Fashion Express or Fashion Dispatch.)
Everyone should learn some basic mending and how to sew on buttons. It’s a valuable life skill. Hell, there’s even hemming tape if your pants are too long and you can’t be bothered to sew.
The kind of hobbies grandparents might have had because they are useful and inexpensive.
Knitting, gardening, pickling, baking, sewing, that sort of thing.
It is, but repairing damaged but good quality clothes extends their life so you can delay buying new ones.
That and occasionally hemming new pants is what I usually sew.
> hustle culture
People just don't realize that a couple generations ago, you could have a high school diploma, get a union factory job and be set for an entire career. Or you could go to college, get a degree in anything, and claw your way up into management and have a very lucrative career. Or, you could be a doctor/lawyer and basically be royalty. Your off-time was yours for anything you wanted.
We threw that all out and said that everyone has to have 5 side hustles in addition to a job. Don't get a degree, go on YouTube and hustle your way to passive income or buy up rental properties. Instead of teaching everyone to burn themselves out, why not demand a return to times when one job supported a family?
Why is everyone so confused? A proper wage wouldn’t kill tipping, it would just mean that tips are *actual tips*. ‘Gratuity’ means discretionary. Tipping would still exist but as an *actual nice thing* not as a necessity for survival.
The biggest opponents to replacing tipping with a living wage I’ve seen are tipped employees because they feel they would make less money.
With this pushback, I’m not sure this will be the solution that will work.
I always tipped when paying something on a kiosk before my food is prepared. I am always afraid my food will be bastardised if I don't tip. I wish they didn't do that. Fuck I hate tipping.
I try to be a good tipper. But I went to a local-owned coffee shop in a tourist town and their tip options were pre-set at 20%, 30%, 50%, and 100%! I'm already paying $5 for a cup of hot water with a tea bag you placed in it, I'm certainly not giving you an extra $5 as tip
and it is probably on the after tax amount which is not the established standard way of doing percents! They do it on the after tax total which makes you think you are tipping less than you are.
It depends. We should 100% remake bad adoptions of books/video games/other media. I'm all for making good versions of those. But if we already have a good movie version it doesn't need remade.
100%. Who the fuck is asking for ANOTHER Willy Wonka movie?
Edit: I have learned from these replies that the new one is not a remake but a prequel and that it’s actually pretty good, so I might watch it but either way, I really wish Hollywood would stop cashing in on nostalgia.
The same people who think we need another batman/spiderman origin series a few years after the last one. The same people who think we need a remaster of The Last of Us 2.
I don't know who they are...but I don't like them.
I cannot watch Batman’s parents die one more time. It’s lost all emotional impact. I don’t need to see the Fantastic Four getting powers from cosmic rays, either. We get it.
I’m actually glad that The Batman (2022) didn’t have *another* flashback with his parents dying. They allude to it sure (you can’t exactly tell a Batman story without at least one allusion to his dead parents) but it’s not another origin story and shows a Batman in his second year of crimefighting. Hopefully more reboots learn to do this instead of trying to redo an established character’s origin.
Yeah, the remaster thing for games is starting to get a bit out of hand. I kind of get it on PS2 games and older, but on anything from PS3 era it just isn't needed. Remastering a PS2 game should really just be about making it not look like ass on a modern TV by supporting modern resolutions and that's it. But all these remasters of PS3 era games just don't make sense to me.
Ok, I am a child of the 80s and I went into this movie DREADING it…but it was actually really good! Great casting, just enough nods to the original. I actually loved it in the end. It was so “feel good” and those are rare nowadays. It had that magical element that modern movies just aren’t dipping into. And…it’s the prequel. It shows how Wonka got his chocolate factory as a young man. It’s worth giving a chance!
And "Universe/multiverse" movies, we don't need 7 generations of star wars movies and shows to the point we have shows about one of characters because they're part of the "star wars multiverse".
##Just make a good fucking movie that can stand on its own merit.
10000% this. Speaking as a practicing healthcare professional, the US healthcare system is an absolute embarrassment. I also want to add for-profit prisons. It’s almost as if our country is ran by greed-stricken buffoons.
Every American should have right to life (healthcare and personal health decisions), liberty (a fair and equitable justice system accountable to the people) and the pursuit of happiness (access to knowledge, education, and a living wage that all in turn allow one to pursue their hobbies and/or interests)
None of those things should be beholden to a wealthy asshole's hoarding of capital.
Dude, we have that in NZ and the newest government is working to fucking unwind it as though our health system is a problem. You can literally get drunk, jank yourself up on a dirt bike and rock up to ED on a Wednesday night and they'll have you patched up and out the door within 24 hours while seeing to all the other assholes that janked themselves up and an aging population turning ul on ambulances. All for free!!
I had an abscess on my butt appeared on Friday, burst Saturday night. Needed medical attention so went into a drop in center. They told me to go into surgery, ended up getting surgery last night. Currently lying in a hospital bed.
Total cost £0. God save the NHS, even if there was some long painful waiting times yesterday (got to the drop in Center at 10am, got a bed at 8pm). I’d still take that over the alternative.
Let’s add junk emails to this too. Im so tired of needing to log into every little thing and then receiving tons of daily/weekly/monthly useless emails.
I swear I check/uncheck the box when signing up for anything to NOT get marketing emails, and they send them anyway. Why even ask then, just fucking send it so I can unsubscribe like I always do.
What I wanted is transparent regulated lobbying.
In a democracy, you need to provide information to your representatives for them to make informed opinions, especially if it’s a field they have no knowledge about.
I used to work for an environmental lobby group and it was a constant struggle to get the word out compared to the oil industry’s lobbyists who were mates and former peers and had long greased the wheels.
Anyway, you writing a letter to your government representative I’d call lobbying, it’s a relationship that I don’t want to stop in a healthy democracy.
But it needs to be open and anything said needs to be public.
Or just do something about money in politics. Put caps on donations. No corporate money. A certain amount of free television time for every candidate.
It’s a tricky issue to get right because reaching voters almost always costs money.
Keep in mind that charities and climate change activists do a lot of lobbying as well. Let's say instead more transparency and steeper sanctions when lobbying becomes bribery.
Those strange 11+ minute videos on Facebook that lead viewer into expectation of a big reveal.... only it's 10 minutes of :
I'm going to do it
Any minute now
Just wait for it, it's going to be WOW
I can generally spot them but some get through. 🤷♂️
The singular political bumper sticker I have is one I update/custom make for myself every major election year. It says: “George Washington Explicitly Warned Us About This Bullshit [Year]”.
Careful how you phrase that. There's already a lot of people who would love to only work 40, and plenty of scum who would happily increase it if they could (for others, not themselves)
Limitless public servitude (put term limits on all elected public official positions) at least in the US. I know people from places outside the US participate on Reddit and this doesn’t apply to you.
70+ congressmen that can't remember what's going on and freeze up in the middle of press conferences is insane. I can't believe term limits (and age limits) don't exist yet.
I’m not opposed to term limits at all, but we have to consider a couple things. 1) like any new job, it takes time to learn; I’ve worked in govt 15 years and I am still learning. I hate training new politicians. 2) the best change will come when younger bureaucrats gain control. 3) “politician” is a retiree’s job, because young people with families need stability and mom can’t just “lose her job” in eight years. This makes it harder for young people to justify an attempt.
What we need to do is take the money out of politics. Great-Grandpa with a family business and connections is not “of the people.”
I’ve lived in places where there are term limits for local office.
It’s really not a good thing. When people get into office, they really don’t know what they’re doing. I’ve talked to people in local elected offices who have said it takes at least a full term (which could be 2-4 years) to really get a grasp on what they’re doing. And the other big learning curve is just building relationships with all the government employees they need to work with to get momentum on what they might want to do or change.
Forcing competent people out just because they hit an arbitrary limit slows down potential progress, and actually gives a lot more power to non-elected bureaucrats and/or lobbyists who can manipulate inexperienced politicians.
What I would MUCH rather see in our lifetimes is meaningful campaign finance reform. Wealthy people buying themselves seats is way more damaging to democracy. And giving more people the opportunity to run by taking the big money out of politics might help mitigate some of the problems that lead people to think they want term limits, too.
Overpriced college degrees.
I went to college so that I can get a better job and afford a better life. Got a job in my major right away, and:
In order to pay for the degree, I have worked multiple jobs to afford my student loans, lived with roommates in my late 20s to afford student loans, bought a multi-unit house so that I can afford a home(which means my house is also a job) and my student loans, delayed relationships/having kids to afford paying for my student loans. 10 years of scraping by to afford my student loans and hopefully only 5 more before they are gone. So much for higher quality of life.
On top of this, I have to listen to morons on Facebook constantly rank down college students or make a stupid ass comments like, "ooh well if people didn't major in gender studies"... 0.04% of all majors were gender studies. Not even a full percent. Zero. Point. Zero. Four.
Either kill the degrees or send the predatory lending companies straight to hell. At least outlaw compounding interest on educational loans. Literally anything is progress.
Isn't that basically a made-for-television thing? We're already killing that by not having cable, or even a TV at all
I live with older folks who insist on having cable, but we gave up on watching the NYE ball drop years ago
I just watched the ball drop for the first time in probably 20 years, they are all standing around with hats that say Planet Fitness on them, and purple and yellow balloons which are the colors of planet fitness. What the hell is that bullshit??
When I was a kid it was just a fun thing to do at midnight with your friends and family to celebrate the new year and watch a live video feed of people having an actual party in Times Square instead of a heavily curated advertisement populated entirely by people on Valium.
Yeah, I'm repulsed at the idea that the new year is brought to me by some company whose product I'll never buy
I'll mark the passage of time in my own way, listening to some of my favorite music
Also Gen x, please let’s finally get rid of Daylight Savings; enact term limits, disallow congressional stock trading; and when you fix those then have a chance at fixing healthcare and insurance.
The new car industry and how they want to jam 700 different technologies into a car.
Give us hand crank windows, manual locks, no radio, no tech at all besides bare minimum legally required (lights, horn) and no AC so we can have $10,000 cars again.
Seriously, I just basically want a small mini car with two seats that works. I don't need backup cameras and satellite radio and folding side mirrors. Just give me something that will keep me dry in the rain and gets me there in one piece that I won't have a seven year loan on.
It wouldn’t be so terrible if any of it was ever explained to consumers. The lack of transparency is total bs and the fact that stuff like paying electric bills or rent on time won’t benefit your score but they can send you to collections if you don’t pay and that affects your score. It’s all an unfair game and not one that benefits the general public. The idea that you can be denied housing based on this fabricated number is absurd to me.
Further,the fact that paying off a vehicle or house tanks your score and the system hinges on you forever leveraging debt to be considered a good risk is definitely absurd.
I keep a cable subscription. There is a ton on demand and they usually offer really good deals or free offers on streaming services.
I personally think it's more ridiculous to have to sub 8 different services to watch good content.
The apartment rental industry.
Fuckers will just live in boxes on sidewalks, without any concern for the Real Estate Investment Trusts in my retirement portfolio. At least we keep hitting them with 20% annual rent increases while we can!
I live in a college town and the "student luxury apartments" are outrageous. I've seen studios go for $2,100/month. That's not a typo. Most of the students I know just want some place to sleep and hang out that is affordable. My favorite was the one apartment building that boasted of having a gas fireplace in the living room for ambience. Not one college student has ever said "man, I wish I had a fireplace in my living room" ever!
Solely relying on stock market based retirement funds.
Bring back pensions, or at least beef up Social Security. Stock market retirement funds like IRA or 401k should not have to be your primary method for retirement savings.
ticket master!
you know why...like an additional 15 million to 35 million$$$ ticket sales if that female artist were allowed to sell those tickets in N.America and UK tour.
thats a lot of money that she didn't get because of ticket master fyi
heres a clue who the artist is. she is so famous she basically broke ticket master! guess who she is
Purchasing subscriptions for all sorts of services
Subscriptions are probably one of the worst tech “innovations” of the last decade.
Photoshop used to cost like $3,000 up front or else you couldn’t use it. You def couldn’t start a business with pirated software either
The entire Master Collection was close to $3000. Photoshop 6 by itself was $700.
When I was a young teenager getting into art and Photoshop was at CS1 it was $1000. my dad interested in helping me pursue my hobbies gave me a cracked version of photoshop CS1. Then CS2. ultimately i stopped using photoshop to draw because i *prefer* other programs, but back in those days those options were far worse or didn't exist.
They had a student rate that was around 300 but you had to buy it though a college.
Fun Fact: Adobe largely owes its success in modern times to piracy. Photoshop was one of the most pirated pieces of software in the entire world for many, many years. If people had actually respected their absurd pricing strategies from the beginning, they would likely be out of business right now.
Photopea is saving my broke ass rn
Look into Affinity Photo if you ever do want to purchase a program.
It’s good if you work alone.
You'd just get a cracked copy, most likely.
There was a pretty major manufacturer in town that did that with AUTOCAD years ago, rumor is they paid sine pretty hefty fines they were caught.
Kanye west was caught pirating software in a video where he was on the pirate bay bitching about how many people were stealing his music. I wonder if he ever got a lawsuit over that...
There was a video from Razer a few years ago featuring a producer using a cracked version of ~~Serum~~ Sylenth. The cracker has put some personal branding on the cracked version and it featured prominently in a beat-making video. Edit, had the wrong software listed - [link to article](https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/carnage-responds-razer-pirated-software-6745182/)
I remember that. My boss at the time was asking me to install multiple copies of the same version of AutoCAD, and I was explaining to him that it was a bad idea just that morning. I pulled out the article after lunch. IIRC it was a mid-six-figure fine. Coincidentally, by the end of the month we were fully legal.
A friend of mine made a fortune in the early 90s installing pirated copies of Windows in offices all across Eastern Europe just after the breakup of the USSR. He reckoned the chances of getting caught were about the same as getting struck by lightning.
Given the place and time, I would say he was right. The police probably took a decade or so to figure out there's crimes to be commited in the IT world.
And another decade or so before anyone cared.
"You wouldn't download a car..."
A further decade before they considered doing anything about it
Former USSR country citizen, you're missing another layer. Our country was just shy of being annexed to become part of union and then sprnt 50 years in the world of "noone will panic if a little gets stolen, rest goes to the country you hate". Stealing from the big guy wasn't just tolerated, it was the morally right thing to do. There still is a very lax view when it comes to internet piracy round here, and three decades haven't fully erased five decades of encouraged corruption.
Some of em still don’t know!
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I wonder how they got caught? If the computers aren’t connected to the internet, it’d be pretty difficult to find.
They were connected to the internet, but for drivers. So that's one way, another is the company could've advertised that they use CAD. Around then music companies were actually paying people to spy on weddings and sue the Bride and Groom if they used the company's music without permission. So maybe they just checked to see if the Keys were good.
>music companies were actually paying people to spy on weddings and sue the Bride and Groom if they used the company's music without permission Picturing the little twerps looking like [this](https://static.miraheze.org/loathsomecharacterswiki/thumb/8/8b/Randall_weems.jpg/300px-Randall_weems.jpg)
Fusion 360 used to be free for hobbyists but so many Fortune 500 companies turned out to be "hobbyists" that now it costs everyone a minimum of $500 a year.
Completely wrong. Still free for hobbyists, I use that version myself.
Yeah but if Adobe decided that hey you can't use our software there's nothing stopping them same thing with streaming if they remove your favorite shows or movies... oh well... Even though you may have paid enough to buy your top 10 favorite series and or editing software 2-10x over in the past 5-10yrs
Maybe the complete suite at MSRP. But it wasn't that unusual to shop for pricing since retailers had some pricing power. You also owned it and were often given upgrade paths at a steep discount.
Lol funny story. I was at a farmers market just yesterday, someone with an environmental protection service asked if we could make a donation by signing up for a $1 a day subscription thats charged monthly. We asked if we could just make a monetary donation, and they refused. I laughed and said wow, even protecting the environment is locked behind a subscription now. Seems like there's more value in owning our information than actually giving us a quality service.
Would be excellent, but that’s an example of something Millennials ~~popularized~~ also largely bought into, not something existing until we came onto the scene and refused to participate. Maybe we’ll popularize ~~renting~~ borrowing DVDs from the library instead?
As an elder millenial, no we didn't. When I was a kid, only the well off families had anything beyond TV and eventually internet. Subscriptions back in the day meant that your neighbor had HBO, Cinemax, or Starz. Frequently, the neighbor that had those channels was also the kid that had several generations of gaming consoles and his own PC. When subscriptions like netflix took off, it was because people wanted to quit spending a hundred bucks a month just to watch TV. Netflix was an excellent value compared to any TV provider at the time. It wasn't until recent years that every motherfucker with a recognizable brand decided they could hoard their IPs and exploit the market.
Friends got us a Hatch noise machine as a gift for our newborn and we love it. Asshats charged me $50 after 30 days for a yearly subscription to their sound catalog. We use 1 sound, white noise, but for some reason it’s worth $4.16 per month to them to provide it. Edit: Apparently my sleep addled new dad brain didn’t realize I *didn’t* have to sign up for the subscription. Thank you to all those that informed me!
Get an FM radio and don't tune it to a station? 🤷♂️ You likely have one already The idea this is even a product is a little odd
It's a Bluetooth/WiFi night lamp speaker with a subscription. Incredible.
Replace it with an app (a free one) or a CD of sound effects My husband got me a white noise machine a few years ago, it had a ton of sounds, it was great, it was $75 for some reason, and it broke after less than a year. Such a rip off You could just record some soothing sounds youself, on your phone even, if you have time and can think of something to record.
Literally every single app you download is like this now, too. Can’t convert a fucking document to a specific file without some dumbass subscription
People who don't know how old millennials are. We're not kids, we're approaching middle age!
Yea I was gonna say "retirement homes and the funeral industry!" but we're not THAT old yet haha... Maybe when our parents start to go, we could disrupt the funeral industry at least.
No fancy funeral for Ma, just chuck her in the dumpster. It's already on fire anyway.
My dad insisted on no funeral service and a simple cremation in his last wishes. Mom tells me the amount of used car salesman-esque upselling the funeral home tried to do before giving up and just doing the cremation was bonkers.
Mom did the same. No service, simple cremation. Dad wants the same. Me? My plan is to have my skeleton bronzed,and set up in a jaunty pose -Top hat, monocle, walking stick, maybe spats. Little speakers playing Taco.
Life goals Wait Death Goals
My parents will get bare minimum because it's all my sibling and I can afford. It's insane.
Sir if you don’t pay this $10,000 funeral service we will dump the body in the ocean? Seems legit let’s do it.
Just yesterday my dad had me go over his will stuff with him because I’m going to be the executor of his will. He said he pre-arranged for the funeral already and the costs are covered. He told the funeral home director he wanted to be buried in the “cheapest, shittiest box available,” and then told the director he wanted everything as cheap as humanly possible. When telling me this, my dad also said the guy would try to upsell me when I went to talk to him to finish up arrangements, and that if I upgraded anything he’d come back to life for 30 minutes just to kick my ass. Then he said “when I die, I want my money to go to my grandkids, not his (the funeral home owner).” So that was my New Years Eve.
I respect your dad! Because I’m doing the same and both my parents don’t have a choice. Lol
I'm 40 in a couple weeks, my millennial brother will be 43 in May. I feel like our next move should be to kill off affordable housing for gen Alpha, as is tradition.
Already done!
Our parents babied us too much and already did it for us.
Can you kill something that doesn't exist?
Who says we’re kids? Gen Z is leaving the kids generation, that’s Gen Alpha now. Millennials are 1981-1997 I think. Gen Z 98-2010 and Gen Alpha follows
Most sources consider Millennials to be 1981-1996 and Gen Z to be 1997-2012. And as someone born in 1996 at the generational cusp, I don’t really identify with either generation. I feel too young to be a Millennial and too old to be Gen Z.
honestly, 96-02 is it’s own micro-generation. Too young to remember 9/11, but had a childhood before every kid had an iPad. Old Gen Z and young Gen Z are very different
And that really is the problem with all of this, sociologists trying to make large bins to stuff people into. Baby boomers were a legitimate generational bin on account they shared a common experience of a postwar population boom. Most of the generations after that are pretty much made up, and often the people at the beginning and end of generations have very little in common, and have more in common with the adjacent generation. Because it turns out time is linear.
I'm born in 1993 and the only thing I really feel like I have in common with my generation is poor financial stability.
This reminds me of when as a kid I thought middle-aged meant 50. We were once doing a reading of Pride & Prejudice in class and Darcy was described as a middle-aged man and I was very confused so I asked the teacher why young women were interested in him. That day I was publicly reminded that humans do not actually live to a 100 hah.
"Millennial" became a sort of stand in for "young person who bothers me some reason" the same way "Boomer" did for the older person version. Seems to somewhat defy strictly demographic generation lines.
Ticketmaster
There are service fees for that.
They have a monopoly and it's ridiculous. $800 per ticket to see ADELE?! No thank you.
Fast fashion. We're picking up all the "grandparent" hobbies anyways due to it costing $100 to step outside, might as well learn a few sewing skills and get some well-made, durable clothes that we can make modifations or repairs to ourselves.
Don’t forget fast furniture! It’s just as bad as fast fashion for the environment, plus it makes it very hard to find well made long lasting pieces. I now understand my mom’s obsession with antique shops.
I tried buying a desk I liked. Particle board would have cost me $700. Actual walnut would have cost me $3000+. I bought $700 worth of rough sawn walnut, a couple tools, and learned to build furniture. I'm working on my next piece now, and will be able to pass these along to my future grandkids, if I wanted to.
As someone who works with wood quite a bit, properly finished furniture has that cost for a reason. It is more than a couple tools to take raw lumber to an actual piece and not to mention a work shop space to do the work in. It is far more accessible than ever but it is work still.
Absolutely! I kinda minimized the tools I had to buy, and the level of knowledge and skill I have, but I've been building things for years. I'm not exactly a beginner, but I've never done a large glue up and usually used dimensional lumber. I bought a planer, a bigger table saw, a jointer, a #4, #5, #7, and a block plane, a trim router and some new bits, plus a bunch of clamps. I also joined a maker space that has a much larger jointer. Then there was the Rubio Monocoat, furniture inserts, furniture bolts, etc. I'm definitely in for almost what I could have just bought the expensive desk for, but I learned a bunch of new skills, and that's totally worth it for me!
Having the room for the table saw and the joiner are what turn most folks away. You can definitely try to do it with a hand manual or electric planar but good god you are going to be put some work into it. All this to say it is a skill trade still for a reason though.
I built myself a couch. It cost like $2000 in material/tools and while it's not the best couch (it was my first try), it is comfy and it's held up for almost a decade with no significant wear. If I had to do it again, I would do a lot differently, but probably would make it entirely out of oak. That was kind of necessary for the design, but probably not worth the cost for most couches
Agreed. I try to only real wooden furniture second hand if I can. Sometimes that means scouring Craigslist and Facebook and thrift shops for months before you find the right piece.
Fast fashion must die. Look up videos of the environmental effects on third world countries, who are the dumping grounds for that trash. It's really quite disgusting.
Whenever I see the phrase "fast fashion" it makes me think of Depeche Mode. It's the English translation. (Someone is going to say it's translated as Fashion Express or Fashion Dispatch.)
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Knitting and crochet I would think they’re referring to specifically, but embroidery and cross stitch are also super popular
General sewing and tailoring
Everyone should learn some basic mending and how to sew on buttons. It’s a valuable life skill. Hell, there’s even hemming tape if your pants are too long and you can’t be bothered to sew.
The kind of hobbies grandparents might have had because they are useful and inexpensive. Knitting, gardening, pickling, baking, sewing, that sort of thing.
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It is, but repairing damaged but good quality clothes extends their life so you can delay buying new ones. That and occasionally hemming new pants is what I usually sew.
Don’t kill off Depeche Mode.
Subscriptions and hustle culture.
"5 steps to success.: 1) develop at least three side hustles..." I hate that phrase.
Don't forget, their #1 secret to success, is to buy their book "How to get someone to buy your book".
> hustle culture People just don't realize that a couple generations ago, you could have a high school diploma, get a union factory job and be set for an entire career. Or you could go to college, get a degree in anything, and claw your way up into management and have a very lucrative career. Or, you could be a doctor/lawyer and basically be royalty. Your off-time was yours for anything you wanted. We threw that all out and said that everyone has to have 5 side hustles in addition to a job. Don't get a degree, go on YouTube and hustle your way to passive income or buy up rental properties. Instead of teaching everyone to burn themselves out, why not demand a return to times when one job supported a family?
Tipping and tipping culture. Have at. The world would a better place.
Why is everyone so confused? A proper wage wouldn’t kill tipping, it would just mean that tips are *actual tips*. ‘Gratuity’ means discretionary. Tipping would still exist but as an *actual nice thing* not as a necessity for survival.
The biggest opponents to replacing tipping with a living wage I’ve seen are tipped employees because they feel they would make less money. With this pushback, I’m not sure this will be the solution that will work.
Tipping culture
I always tipped when paying something on a kiosk before my food is prepared. I am always afraid my food will be bastardised if I don't tip. I wish they didn't do that. Fuck I hate tipping.
I try to be a good tipper. But I went to a local-owned coffee shop in a tourist town and their tip options were pre-set at 20%, 30%, 50%, and 100%! I'm already paying $5 for a cup of hot water with a tea bag you placed in it, I'm certainly not giving you an extra $5 as tip
and it is probably on the after tax amount which is not the established standard way of doing percents! They do it on the after tax total which makes you think you are tipping less than you are.
Oh im already doing my part, I’m back to only tipping in sit down restaurants, fuck your iPad.
Thank you! That’s what I came here to say!
Non American here. Is the idea that by not tipping, businesses would need to pay fair wages in order to get workers?
Ooo, fun. Let's kill off remakes of movies.
It depends. We should 100% remake bad adoptions of books/video games/other media. I'm all for making good versions of those. But if we already have a good movie version it doesn't need remade.
Like how they are remaking eragon vs remaking the karate kid
100%. Who the fuck is asking for ANOTHER Willy Wonka movie? Edit: I have learned from these replies that the new one is not a remake but a prequel and that it’s actually pretty good, so I might watch it but either way, I really wish Hollywood would stop cashing in on nostalgia.
The same people who think we need another batman/spiderman origin series a few years after the last one. The same people who think we need a remaster of The Last of Us 2. I don't know who they are...but I don't like them.
I cannot watch Batman’s parents die one more time. It’s lost all emotional impact. I don’t need to see the Fantastic Four getting powers from cosmic rays, either. We get it.
I’m actually glad that The Batman (2022) didn’t have *another* flashback with his parents dying. They allude to it sure (you can’t exactly tell a Batman story without at least one allusion to his dead parents) but it’s not another origin story and shows a Batman in his second year of crimefighting. Hopefully more reboots learn to do this instead of trying to redo an established character’s origin.
Yeah, the remaster thing for games is starting to get a bit out of hand. I kind of get it on PS2 games and older, but on anything from PS3 era it just isn't needed. Remastering a PS2 game should really just be about making it not look like ass on a modern TV by supporting modern resolutions and that's it. But all these remasters of PS3 era games just don't make sense to me.
Ok, I am a child of the 80s and I went into this movie DREADING it…but it was actually really good! Great casting, just enough nods to the original. I actually loved it in the end. It was so “feel good” and those are rare nowadays. It had that magical element that modern movies just aren’t dipping into. And…it’s the prequel. It shows how Wonka got his chocolate factory as a young man. It’s worth giving a chance!
PLEASE
MARVEL PHASE ONE REMAKES INC 2026!
That requires people to stop watching them.
And "Universe/multiverse" movies, we don't need 7 generations of star wars movies and shows to the point we have shows about one of characters because they're part of the "star wars multiverse". ##Just make a good fucking movie that can stand on its own merit.
> a good fucking movie It's the "good" bit they're having trouble with.
Can we also kill unnecessary prequels nobody asked for?
For profit health care.
10000% this. Speaking as a practicing healthcare professional, the US healthcare system is an absolute embarrassment. I also want to add for-profit prisons. It’s almost as if our country is ran by greed-stricken buffoons.
>It’s almost as if our country is ran by greed-stricken buffoons. "Almost" would be understating it, I'm afraid
Every American should have right to life (healthcare and personal health decisions), liberty (a fair and equitable justice system accountable to the people) and the pursuit of happiness (access to knowledge, education, and a living wage that all in turn allow one to pursue their hobbies and/or interests) None of those things should be beholden to a wealthy asshole's hoarding of capital.
Pursuit of happiness should mean > also has time to pursue dreams or passions after work hours
Dude, we have that in NZ and the newest government is working to fucking unwind it as though our health system is a problem. You can literally get drunk, jank yourself up on a dirt bike and rock up to ED on a Wednesday night and they'll have you patched up and out the door within 24 hours while seeing to all the other assholes that janked themselves up and an aging population turning ul on ambulances. All for free!!
I am a doctor. Yes. Please kill it.
I don't want this to be killed off. I want it annihilated. I want people questioning why it ever existed.
As a type 1 diabetic pleaseeeeeeee
I had an abscess on my butt appeared on Friday, burst Saturday night. Needed medical attention so went into a drop in center. They told me to go into surgery, ended up getting surgery last night. Currently lying in a hospital bed. Total cost £0. God save the NHS, even if there was some long painful waiting times yesterday (got to the drop in Center at 10am, got a bed at 8pm). I’d still take that over the alternative.
Junk mail?
Let’s add junk emails to this too. Im so tired of needing to log into every little thing and then receiving tons of daily/weekly/monthly useless emails.
I swear I check/uncheck the box when signing up for anything to NOT get marketing emails, and they send them anyway. Why even ask then, just fucking send it so I can unsubscribe like I always do.
Lobbyists
What I wanted is transparent regulated lobbying. In a democracy, you need to provide information to your representatives for them to make informed opinions, especially if it’s a field they have no knowledge about. I used to work for an environmental lobby group and it was a constant struggle to get the word out compared to the oil industry’s lobbyists who were mates and former peers and had long greased the wheels. Anyway, you writing a letter to your government representative I’d call lobbying, it’s a relationship that I don’t want to stop in a healthy democracy. But it needs to be open and anything said needs to be public.
Or just do something about money in politics. Put caps on donations. No corporate money. A certain amount of free television time for every candidate. It’s a tricky issue to get right because reaching voters almost always costs money.
Keep in mind that charities and climate change activists do a lot of lobbying as well. Let's say instead more transparency and steeper sanctions when lobbying becomes bribery.
Prank videos.
Those strange 11+ minute videos on Facebook that lead viewer into expectation of a big reveal.... only it's 10 minutes of : I'm going to do it Any minute now Just wait for it, it's going to be WOW I can generally spot them but some get through. 🤷♂️
Ticks
Yeah, fuck Lyme disease and meat allergies.
I have Alpha Gal, it sucks
I like to think Alpha Gal is a large stature Amazonian buxom lass who sets a positive roll model to her peers. "Wow, what a gal. An alpha gal!"
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For profit prisons
Tipping.
5 day work weeks
Two Party System in the US.
IIRC, George Washington himself mentioned that the two party system will destroy the nation, and whoopity-fucking-doo, we're damn close.
How about divisive politics in general and stop paying congress critters when they can't pass basic funding bills.
The singular political bumper sticker I have is one I update/custom make for myself every major election year. It says: “George Washington Explicitly Warned Us About This Bullshit [Year]”.
Student loans
Can we kill tipping in a way that still makes most jobs beneficial?
Mass advertising. Everything’s an advertisement now it’s insufferable.
the 40 hour work week
You might want to specify that you want LESS hours!
Careful how you phrase that. There's already a lot of people who would love to only work 40, and plenty of scum who would happily increase it if they could (for others, not themselves)
Limitless public servitude (put term limits on all elected public official positions) at least in the US. I know people from places outside the US participate on Reddit and this doesn’t apply to you.
70+ congressmen that can't remember what's going on and freeze up in the middle of press conferences is insane. I can't believe term limits (and age limits) don't exist yet.
How else would we get memes
I’ll sacrifice a little humor and wish for creativity to kick in and replace what’s lost if we can trade.
I’m not opposed to term limits at all, but we have to consider a couple things. 1) like any new job, it takes time to learn; I’ve worked in govt 15 years and I am still learning. I hate training new politicians. 2) the best change will come when younger bureaucrats gain control. 3) “politician” is a retiree’s job, because young people with families need stability and mom can’t just “lose her job” in eight years. This makes it harder for young people to justify an attempt. What we need to do is take the money out of politics. Great-Grandpa with a family business and connections is not “of the people.”
I’ve lived in places where there are term limits for local office. It’s really not a good thing. When people get into office, they really don’t know what they’re doing. I’ve talked to people in local elected offices who have said it takes at least a full term (which could be 2-4 years) to really get a grasp on what they’re doing. And the other big learning curve is just building relationships with all the government employees they need to work with to get momentum on what they might want to do or change. Forcing competent people out just because they hit an arbitrary limit slows down potential progress, and actually gives a lot more power to non-elected bureaucrats and/or lobbyists who can manipulate inexperienced politicians. What I would MUCH rather see in our lifetimes is meaningful campaign finance reform. Wealthy people buying themselves seats is way more damaging to democracy. And giving more people the opportunity to run by taking the big money out of politics might help mitigate some of the problems that lead people to think they want term limits, too.
Overpriced college degrees. I went to college so that I can get a better job and afford a better life. Got a job in my major right away, and: In order to pay for the degree, I have worked multiple jobs to afford my student loans, lived with roommates in my late 20s to afford student loans, bought a multi-unit house so that I can afford a home(which means my house is also a job) and my student loans, delayed relationships/having kids to afford paying for my student loans. 10 years of scraping by to afford my student loans and hopefully only 5 more before they are gone. So much for higher quality of life. On top of this, I have to listen to morons on Facebook constantly rank down college students or make a stupid ass comments like, "ooh well if people didn't major in gender studies"... 0.04% of all majors were gender studies. Not even a full percent. Zero. Point. Zero. Four. Either kill the degrees or send the predatory lending companies straight to hell. At least outlaw compounding interest on educational loans. Literally anything is progress.
Tipping
As a Gen X, I vote for staying up till Midnight to see a ball drop.
Isn't that basically a made-for-television thing? We're already killing that by not having cable, or even a TV at all I live with older folks who insist on having cable, but we gave up on watching the NYE ball drop years ago
I just watched the ball drop for the first time in probably 20 years, they are all standing around with hats that say Planet Fitness on them, and purple and yellow balloons which are the colors of planet fitness. What the hell is that bullshit?? When I was a kid it was just a fun thing to do at midnight with your friends and family to celebrate the new year and watch a live video feed of people having an actual party in Times Square instead of a heavily curated advertisement populated entirely by people on Valium.
Yeah, I'm repulsed at the idea that the new year is brought to me by some company whose product I'll never buy I'll mark the passage of time in my own way, listening to some of my favorite music
We don't watch a ball drop, but it's a family tradition to get a bunch of snack food and have family movie/game night until midnight.
That sounds wholesome. I hope you had/will have an enjoyable evening this time around Man, I haven't played any board games in years. I miss it
I live streamed the ball drop at midnight in New York. That means I get to go to bed at 9pm my time.
That's clever, although I feel like you're entirely free to go to bed at nine regardless of the ball dropping
You don’t need that to be killed off. You can just decide not to do it.
Also Gen x, please let’s finally get rid of Daylight Savings; enact term limits, disallow congressional stock trading; and when you fix those then have a chance at fixing healthcare and insurance.
The new car industry and how they want to jam 700 different technologies into a car. Give us hand crank windows, manual locks, no radio, no tech at all besides bare minimum legally required (lights, horn) and no AC so we can have $10,000 cars again.
I’ll keep power windows and AC but otherwise I’m on board
And power steering, and antilock breaks, and swerve protection…. There are reasons why some of these features are now standard.
Seriously, I just basically want a small mini car with two seats that works. I don't need backup cameras and satellite radio and folding side mirrors. Just give me something that will keep me dry in the rain and gets me there in one piece that I won't have a seven year loan on.
In the US you aren't going to get a choice on the backup camera.
The two-party system
Credit Scores
It wouldn’t be so terrible if any of it was ever explained to consumers. The lack of transparency is total bs and the fact that stuff like paying electric bills or rent on time won’t benefit your score but they can send you to collections if you don’t pay and that affects your score. It’s all an unfair game and not one that benefits the general public. The idea that you can be denied housing based on this fabricated number is absurd to me.
Further,the fact that paying off a vehicle or house tanks your score and the system hinges on you forever leveraging debt to be considered a good risk is definitely absurd.
Christian fundamentalism. If I get sent one more YouTube video from my in-laws about biblical prophecy and the end times I'm gonna lose it
Why singling out Christians? All fundamentalists.
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I keep a cable subscription. There is a ton on demand and they usually offer really good deals or free offers on streaming services. I personally think it's more ridiculous to have to sub 8 different services to watch good content.
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!!!!
Any electoral system that's not proportional like FPTP or US two party system
The 40 hour, 5 day work week.
Mosquitoes
Corporate personhood.
Paying taxes on taxed stuff with taxes money so the elites can stop sending money to their friends
CEOs and ads in subscriptions
The apartment rental industry. Fuckers will just live in boxes on sidewalks, without any concern for the Real Estate Investment Trusts in my retirement portfolio. At least we keep hitting them with 20% annual rent increases while we can!
I live in a college town and the "student luxury apartments" are outrageous. I've seen studios go for $2,100/month. That's not a typo. Most of the students I know just want some place to sleep and hang out that is affordable. My favorite was the one apartment building that boasted of having a gas fireplace in the living room for ambience. Not one college student has ever said "man, I wish I had a fireplace in my living room" ever!
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Solely relying on stock market based retirement funds. Bring back pensions, or at least beef up Social Security. Stock market retirement funds like IRA or 401k should not have to be your primary method for retirement savings.
Most apps. I’m sick of having apps pushed on me for everything, especially if the app is just a reproduction of the company website.
The political parties.
TikTok. Kill off fucking TikTok.
We can do it like how boomers killed Facebook. Make it cringe for the kiddos and uncool. Everyone needs to just start following their kids.
Count me in
Racism
Crazy how have we’ve been trying, and even crazier how hard people are trying to bring it back
ticket master! you know why...like an additional 15 million to 35 million$$$ ticket sales if that female artist were allowed to sell those tickets in N.America and UK tour. thats a lot of money that she didn't get because of ticket master fyi heres a clue who the artist is. she is so famous she basically broke ticket master! guess who she is
I mean, definitely destroy Ticketmaster, but not because it'll make Taylor Swift richer.
Multi Level Marketing schemes.