{"id":15750,"date":"2026-02-16T13:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15750"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:24:04","slug":"things-are-so-bad-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=15750","title":{"rendered":"But things are so much worse today.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to browse long before finding people decrying just how horrible things are today and getting so much worse. The world is, and never will, be perfect &#8211; but it&#8217;s no where near as bad\/hard as people used to have it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe it? How about having to sign up for a single 1 hour slot to do your laundry each week in large industrial laundry room &#8211; and carry your laundry there and back? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what your grandparents talked about when they said they went to school up hill both ways. But it also shows us how much more communal people used to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cxpAVCan4CQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s another coverage 20 years later &#8211; the interview of the older ladies could have been the same ladies from the first video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kQqEqyrVshQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to browse long before finding people decrying just how horrible things are today and getting so much worse. The world is, and never will, be perfect &#8211; but it&#8217;s no where near as bad\/hard as people used to have it. Don&#8217;t believe it? How about having to sign up for a single 1 hour slot to do your laundry each week in large industrial laundry room &#8211; and carry your laundry there and back? 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