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"Kids Can't Use Computers" is now ten years old, and it's only gotten worse (www.coding2learn.org)

submitted 1 year ago by koncertejo@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] root@socialmedia.fail 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Computers, math, cooking, cleaning, exercise, eating properly.

It's just another in a long list of things that some grown-ass adults act like is somehow beyond them because that's easier than trying.

Definitely not unique to any generation.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sure is getting worse, though.

[–] root@socialmedia.fail 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol it's really not, at all. every generation tells themselves this and it's always bullshit.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Attributed to Socrates, ~400 BC

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are objective metrics one can use, rather than basing your opinion on your personal observation window.

[–] root@socialmedia.fail 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are, sure. And you are going to cherry-pick the ones that allow you to feel a smug and very much unearned sense of superiority.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm old and educated, so sorry.

[–] root@socialmedia.fail 1 points 1 year ago

No need to apologize to me, I'm not the one making a fool out of myself.

Educated indeed. Lmao.

[–] BrianTheFirst@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

easier than trying

I'm sure there are plenty of cases of this, but I feel the need to point out that a lot of times there can be mental illness at the root. Which is definitely not easier than trying.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

It’s just another in a long list of things that some grown-ass adults act like is somehow beyond them because that’s easier than trying.

That's the funny part. It's not really easier. They have to go through life depending on others to do trivial things for them.

Imagine taking your car to a mechanic for low tire pressure rather than learning how to use the pumps at a gas station.