36 People Online Predict What Will Seem “Not Normal” In A Decade’s Time

If this were to happen, the world would be a much better place.

A million little cult leaders

Wrong. I wish this would be true but it is wrong because (many) people are stupid sheep. No, probably not you, reader, but enough that "influencers" have been a thing my entire life. All that changes is the form they take. The internet and sites like youtube make it easier for "nobodies" on a limited budget to become an influencer but the concept has been around my entire life. Celebrity endorsements, mesmerizing patter on shopping networks and late night infomercials. Sports endorsements subtly convincing you to purchase (Nike / whoever) gear because (insert famous athlete) is prominently wearing their gear. Over time the faces change and the type of media used to reach you changes but the basic concept does not. If there is a buck to be made pushing products in your face someone will be doing it.

Influencers are about as helpful as influenza.

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You only care about the "bad" ones, while there are plenty of good ones. I wonder how many celebrities they like or follow...

I hope OP is right. No child needs to be brought up as entertainment.

The real crime is that kids on reality shows (Sister Wives, for example) don't get paid a dime. There should be a law against that.

Absolutely! A lot of these kids from when it all started r already beginning to do that. ESPECIALLY a lot of the poster kids for the trans movement that had parents that allowed them to take hormones and have surgery at very young ages. Those kids now recognize that it WAS a phase and now they r f*cked for life. Let ur kids b who they r, but until they r adults, don't mess with their bodies. They can make that choice for themselves when they r older.

They are already speaking out. The adults involved in vlogs and reality shows involving kids need to go to prison for abuse.

Also universal basic income. Our society won't be able to move forward without that.

I'd rather work 5 days. I get bored too easily having that 3rd day off.

Back in the late 70's, I worked in a financial office that gave us flex time so that we could take classes, book appointments, be home to greet children after school. This place was way ahead of the curve, and the appreciative employees gave 100% back.

Dream on, not gonna happen.

This would be great although working 10 hours in customer service/ retail dealing with the public would be hell.

Yes. We need to stay on standard time.

just enough with it already. I contacted my local politicians and asked them to end this b******t.

No way, I love this! I'm a Daylight Saver forever! I can't wait till March.

I honestly don't care either way, just pick one and stick with it! I'm so damned sick of the time changes because my sleep schedule is already f****d up without additional help.

I actually enjoy it. Before the regular time changes, half the year I never saw daylight on working days. And not seeing daylight is also bad for you, or so I heard/read

Glass and paper, both recyclable

I take some comfort in the fact we have at least come to realize it is a problem. I grew up as plastics were being 'discovered'. They existed, but many new / better kinds have been developed in my life time. Even stuff you don't think much bout like plastic cling wrap (think Saran wrap) has improved. BUT - in the early days we didn't see the waste as a problem. One of my chores as an 11 year old was to burn the household garbage. Everything that could burn went into our burn barrel. I happily watched plastic drip flaming blobs as it burned because it was interesting. Now I feel pretty cringe about that but at the time I had no clue that what I was doing was 'bad'. I am happy to see efforts to reduce use / increase recycling but we have a long way to go. Modern me practices all three Rs but the reduce part isn't always easy since products come packaged how they come packaged. I compost all my food waste and recycle everything I can. It is surprising how much this reduces dump runs.

Including our own bodies

I'm hoping someone will find a way to incorporate recycled plastic into road building and other types of construction.

I hope so

You know, that was how it USED to be - when you bought a physical DVD or VHS tape, you owned it outright. Interesting (and heartening) to see that people want to go back to “ownership” instead of “subscription” - even if the products are all digital now.

I don't mind subscriptions for some things. Streaming services are fine except the paying, but still watching ads. I'm paying to not have ads. Peacock's levels are insane. Amazon is apparently going to offer a no-ad add on subscription on top of yearly Amazon Prime cost. Ridiculous. I think it isn't so much the subscriptions themselves that are the problem for me - it's the add ons. I think Amazon can charge more for yearly and include prime video & Kindle unlimited without adding it as another subscription.

Again, the consumer drives the demand. Stop buying digital-only goods.

I sure hope so. I'm sick of this trend already.

Tangible media.

Keep dreaming, they're not gonna go away anytime soon.

Clean water foe everyone, then maybe no plastic bottles will be needed

I always try avoid buying these but if I do have to I try keep them to reuse, doesn't do much but I think if I have to contribute and buy one then I'm going to use it a lot