Here’s a bit of a personal list:
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Undeniably the food scene in the US has changed for the better. Sometimes almost to an overcorrection (protein-slop and all). It’s great that so many different cuisines are easy to name and find even in more traditional rural parts of the country. Organic food isn’t seen as a weird hippie thing but an investment you make for your health.
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A lot less smoking in the world. I say this as early gen Z but I never grew up in a time when smoking was seen as cool when I was a teenager. My uncle even quit and that was good to see.
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It may not seem like it sometimes, but the one consolation prize of YouTube is I can theoretically be a content creator and never need to worry about the bottleneck that is getting chosen out of millions of people in Hollywood. I could theoretically just stay in the midwest and learn to livestream or make an anime discussion channel and produce content without needing a massive studio or working in Hollywood. Of course, it’s still almost impossible to get paid for it, but still.
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More and more people are aware of cars not being the best way to get around which has sparked interest in walkable cities. Problem is, there’s too much demand and too little supply but seeing car culture be questioned is a great first start.
I’ve heard this a lot and I wonder what is responsible for the change.
probably a combination of:
no one carrys cash on them anymore for a quick ‘stick up and run’, other steal-able possessions require more effort to turn into cash
majority of stores now have policies for a maximum amount of cash allowed inside a register and a time lock safe in the back
security cameras have become cheaper, higher resolution, and can keep multple months of recorded buffer on a hard disk array. they’ve become prevalent EVERYWHERE now to the point its damn impossible to exist anywhere in public without being under observation by someone’s private CCTV system
Atmospheric lead reduction