October 8, 2025
Johnny Kramer wrote:
It’s funny that this should pop up on my feed tonight, because earlier tonight another video popped up of people shopping at Sears in 1982, and the old people in the comments who could remember that time were going on and on about how much better “everything” was back then and how they wish they could go back.
I saw microwaves for $399; I just looked and that’s about $1,340 today. I bought my current microwave a couple of years ago for $80 — less than 6% of that.
(As another, much more important example, I had no nausea during my chemo last year; some of the older nurses told me that as recently as the late 1990s, people were often puking DURING the treatment!
(And that protocol was only developed in 1974; if my condition happened to me before then, I wouldn’t even be here now to type this.)
Of course we still have plenty of problems today, and I hate almost everything about smartphones and the way people dress today compared to the past.
