what do you think
well um i can't be terribly authoritative on what life was like thirty years ago um
because i'm not that old yet
uh oh i can be but go ahead
um
um i know that uh
i mean obviously you look at at technological the technological aspect of of social change i mean you didn't have uh you didn't have video games you didn't have home computers you didn't have Xerox machines
right
i mean uh
you you try to you go into a a business today and you you try to imagine the whole thing except running off of carbon paper
and it's almost inconceivable now because the Xerox machines and and everything have become such you know such such a a part of the way we live and the yeah
right we fax everything we don't even wait for the mail anymore
um-hum
right
yeah uh a business associate of mine was was talking about how it used to be where you would send things through the mail and you had to do something this was concerning the S E C
and so if they had business to do they had to finish it you know three days in advance so they could get it through the mail
right
and now it's the kind of thing where you can work up until the last minute
um-hum
because you can get it there you know in in a matter of minutes
right
you know through a fax machine and because of that these quote unquote convenience type items have actually made work that much more intense and that much harder
right
because you're expected to work on stuff up until the last minute
you're expected to exactly and i recently read an article on just this that said stress today is so much worse it should be less because we have a microwave and our grandmother's had to bake brownies and
we can throw them in a microwave for two minutes but the more conveniences we have the more that's expected of us and we have no downtime
um-hum
like we don't stop and wait for things to happen because we don't have to
yeah
so we keep moving we don't stop and wait for the things to bake and this to happen and that to happen we just hit buttons and keep going to the next thing so we have no relaxation time in between
um-hum
so they say that's really a bad thing that you need to learn a lot of ways to to deal with that and get your your time in between things
um-hum
so that's good that's an interesting point
but i just think our our family lives have changed drastically
and i think that's just of course a part of it is technology i mean our kids where would they be without Nintendo and you know their TV shows and that and some of that is really bad i think
but we have all single families so many single families now um
a lot of working both parents are working so there's a whole big effect on our kids and not very many of my daughter's friends really are on their original mother and father
you know i'm wondering what this is going to do in ten and twenty years
well there's that and there's the fact that you know nowadays fewer and fewer couples are deciding to have kids
what generally tends to happen i mean the U S would be actually declining in population slightly if it weren't for the fact that we have continuation large scale immigration into the country
you're probably right and i'm an O B nurse and that's never really occurred to me but that's that's interesting i never really thought about it that way
yeah yeah i saw that the numbers on that awhile back and i was like uh-huh
yeah yeah that's true when is this good or not good
well um
we don't know that yet
in terms of the long term effect effect on on America in terms of the culture and everything i don't know um
yeah i don't know either
most of the of the next generation is going to be in or or an extremely extremely extremely large part part of the next generation is going to be you know second generation from uh from immigrant parents
that's true
and they're going to be really struggling and i don't think that America is currently the type of environment where struggling up from the bottom
is necessarily considered to be good
right right
i mean it's no longer the the uh the accomplishment that it that it once was and not that many people are really trying i don't think
yeah
yeah that's kind of scary
hum
well that's true but i it's just very very different and i guess every ten years it's just been very different
yeah
so and i don't know what's gonna happen um
i know what i'm seeing here at my well my job is that people are having their children much later in life
yeah that
so that they're establishing careers and they've got their homes and they've got a lot
