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rosa_sparkz35 karma

What steps need to be made to improve government understanding of tech to make any theoretical regulation effective?

rosa_sparkz2 karma

Well you kind of nailed it on the head with the last part of your sentence. With a tougher landscape for jobs, the cost of living and our culture that can appear at the precipice of dystopia, we don't have the luxury of forming a counterculture revolution as dramatic as what was the '60's.

But I think counterculture ideals are subtly a part of youth culture in a way that is underreported. Armchair anthropologist here, i'd argue that maybe if we saw the 60's as a direct shift away from the nuclear family norms of the early 20th century, that today's youths have a subtle shift away from the 80's/90's/00's culture as well. Local bookstores are thriving1, young people are drinking less 2, and the massive spikes in DSA membership are overwhelmingly under 353. There's plenty other indicators about what defines a 'counter culture' but I think millennials and Gen Z doesn't have the dramatic punk or hippie cultures for people to report on. We're all just on reddit making memes about wanting health insurance.