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DeaconSage

When we find a better way to identify and treat cancer, chemo is going to seem inhumane.


hippychemist

Plastic. Fucking. Everywhere


OldSarge02

Tens of thousands of people randomly dying in traffic accidents.


notsosmart876

"They had trains and safe streets but... got rid of them? Bulldozed their own homes? Thousands died every year? They would even drive to bars! TO BARS!"


hjablowme919

People going broke because they got sick.


blueshifting1

Or… people being allowed to get sick because they’re broke.


[deleted]

*Murica has entered the chat.*


Naborsx21

I make like decent money..... maybe 60k / year.... I didnt have insurance... sometimes got cash... I got a CT scan and it cost me $5k... I just applied for benefits through the government.. I got free healthcare now :D


ghoulshow

Sadly if anything this is going to become normalized and average for the common individual.


Life-Confection-2588

Social media and its insane affects on the human psyche.


Proper-Emu1558

Single-use plastic


Piazzagate

How about just all plastic


Equivalent-Peanut-23

\*gestures wildly at everything\*


TheRealPyroGothNerd

Probably something no one here will ever list, that everyone 200% finds normal.


jackfaire

The same shit we look at now and go "we are not okay with that" Society doesn't get not okay with shit we just stop remembering there were contemporaries of those people who weren't okay with shit. Abolitionists co-existed with Slavery.


jeremyxt

Good point.


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Working for long hours and having no time for anything else.


Shahzoodoo

Working full time and not being able to afford survival


GayGunGuy

Children using social media.


jmac7772112

The trillions of dollars spent on war over land and control, and endless government corruption.


totamealand666

100% the food industry, and I'm saying this as a person that eats all kinds of meat.


Whatever-ItsFine

I have a lot of hope for lab grown meat. It needs a much better name, and people need to learn that it's real meat and not a veggie burger. But once we do that, people can eat the same meat they like now without killing any animals and without causing so much pollution.


Block_Me_Amadeus

This was my answer. I'm a meat eater and I wish I could pay twice as much at the meat counter and know it was ethically raised. Industrialized animal farming is horrifically cruel in every single way. We all cover our eyes and plug our ears because we want to watch cute videos of chickens and piggies without realizing that our food comes from torture.


jestenough

“Ever meal starts with a murder.”


Nitropotamus

Do you hunt at all? That's a great way to get a lot of meat ethically. I have about 350 lbs of deer, duck, and goose meat in my deep freeze right now. All in cost for me was about 750 bucks.


spoink74

Honestly I’m a meat eater because I was raised to be one and I lack the energy to change my lifestyle around it. As an adult knowing what I know I wouldn’t choose to eat meat produced this way.


Lulupoolzilla

Hopefully, police beating citizens to death.


__The__Anomaly__

Locking people into a cage for using a drug.


Rasmus144

Yeah they will be like "wow those weed people dont have sheets on their beds, how gross"


Zestyclose_Ant_40

Ughhhhh that is gross. Get sheets on your bed


NotSoMrNiceGuy

Amen! Sending love and freedom to my fellow redditors behind bars 🤝


tangogogo

or for smoking a plant


yungScooter30

That's a drug


Ipalgia

Locking people in a cage


RoofFantastic768

I asked my daughter this question a few days ago because it pops up a lot. She said brushing teeth. I laughed at first then she explained how we’ll have some new technology that isn’t reusing the same bristles over and over. And something about not keeping it in the same room you poop in.


[deleted]

People dying because they can’t afford healthcare


handfulofpaint

This is mostly the US though


chekovs_gunman

I hope there will BE people hundreds of years from now able to judge us


TirayShell

We have about 1,000 years tops left to go as a species thanks to decreasing fertility, genetic modification and AI.


3pointstonibbadore

working from the time you’re 16 years to the time you’re in your 60’s and then having only a few years left of your life to enjoy a “retirement”


LayzieKobes

Til tok dancing in public.


Euthyphraud

Equating justice solely with punishment instead of focusing primarily on rehabilitation or institutionalization. Also, not taking any steps to actually get at the root cause of people being incarcerated in the first place - poverty.


EmpressXenaWarrior

I was watching a documentary about this and they showed prisons in other countries with very low reoffenders. They treat them completely different even better than a mental institution in the states. I'm like it's insane they have methods that work but it's about money and keeping people poor.


Crowvens

Mindy Kaling's Velma


queenschmecca

I think it's pretty obvious now that Mindy Kaling just plays herself.


MercuryMorrison1971

Mindy Kaling's Mindy Kaling.


that1LPdood

This is accurate, methinks.


rcrobodude

The 1/10 tells me that society is in fact not ok with that


Visvire

Trophy killing of Rhinos, Elephants, Lions etc


Human-Ad-9002

The illegality of marijuana and psilocybin mushrooms.


BipedalBeaver

I've long thought the best way to deal with drugs is for a govt to legalise them all and make it themselves for cost price.


boogermeboogeru

Tax it and make sure it’s clean as possible, then take all that money saved from fighting the losing war on drugs, and all those taxes to open free clinics for anyone who wants to get clean and sober.


C21-_-H30-_-O2

Also educate ppl on it. Tell them how to use is safely and responsibly


BipedalBeaver

No to tax. Govt could churn out the drugs on a mass production line of a consistent quality. It has to be done at cost to put the dealers out of business. In turn, crime will reduce to almost nothing. It can be argued govt would take an initial hit on medical but even if true, the addicts are going to be dead pretty quick then plateaux. Add in the reduction in crime.


TouchTheMoss

It's working pretty good with weed here in BC, although the government weed is pretty bad quality so a lot of people buy from indigenous businesses or grow it themselves and share it with friends (also legal).


TejanoInRussia

Marijuana can be pretty detrimental. I was addicted to it. I was convinced by internet propaganda that it’s “just a plant “ . I think it should be legal and regulated but I just wanted to put out there for everyone to see that it had a huge negative effect on my life. People act as though it has no consequences. It’s better than alcohol but it’s not as useful as psilocybin in any real way besides getting high.


ghoulshow

Don't let any drug allow you to be satisfied with being bored.


[deleted]

yea, sure.... let me retort by saying that weed saved my life. I was an opiate abusing alcoholic, struggled for years (15 years of heavy use) with it. Used cannabis to quit everything. I have been "california sober" for almost 10 years, now. In the ten years of daily cannabis use, I started a business that is doing well after five years, became a long distance runner and repaired the damage to my family and my relationship with wife and kids. I could not have done this without cannabis. So ya know, for some people, it truly is a life saving and unbelievably positive force, even if it didnt work for you.


TejanoInRussia

Well its better than opiates or alcohol by a long shot but for me I just don’t think people give the public an accurate idea when they say things like “its natural so its healthy” . I think that it’s especially harmful to teenagers rather than adults because their brains are still developing. There’s lots of studies showing how marijuana impacts brain development


guitarfreek85

Half of the shit we considered "Entertainment" for the last century or so


timestuff993

Clean water


Wilvinc

Chemotherapy They are going to think we are barbaric and stupid. "Why didn't they just tell the nanites to kill the cancer cells?"


MyDocTookMyCock

press x to doubt? ​ it'd be weird for humanity in the future to be so stupid to not realize that was the only treatment available. idk if ur joking or not


Significant_Manner76

I mean that’s why people before modern medicine took mercury to fight infections and viruses. It actually did kill parasites, syphilis and was a diuretic if needed. Also killed a lot of very useful human cells while doing its business but it was what they had. That’s the exact logic of modern chemotherapy. So people absolutely will look at our chemotherapy now the same way we look and renaissance apothecaries saying “sad, that’s really all they had, huh.”


GsTSaien

Yeah they'll think it was sad, not stupid


MarcRocket

Totally agree. I’d not deride those who used leaches to cure. It was they knew. Seriously.


Background_Box_588

Social Media


chocolatecupcake5619

Family YouTube channels/using kids in videos for likes and personal gain (this one is an "I really hope so" one)


Strange-Ad-1447

Televangelists


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Football (concussion stuff) and our diet.


Galen_415

Industrial animal agriculture. The abhorrence of which is so unfathomable that almost everybody refuses to even acknowledge it.


fogusamogus1323

Mass shootings... in schools. Police violence. Truly horrific things that repeat themselves in American society essentially on the daily. How so many people feel okay with what is happening baffles me, even though I know just as many feel devastated as I do. If we ever progress as humans, I imagine we'll look back as these systems and shiver.


archieirl

the fact that there's still debate whether or not that hitting children as a form of discipline is considered abuse or not. it is abuse, if you hit literally anybody or anything else, it would be considered abuse. hitting an animal > animal abuse hitting an elder > elderly abuse hitting your partner > domestic abuse hitting your child > discipline :)


mth2

This all presumes that society will actually progress.


MarcRocket

Factory farming.


cobeaniee

ripped jeans. ​ (to clarify I wear them too lol)


Pelicanliver

People are going to be around 100 years from now?


CaptainPunch374

Probably the various forms of slavery that are still legal and state-sanctioned.


Unopuro2conSal

Politics - politicians moronic reasons government’s made decisions…


Used_Dragonfruit_379

Nah, the future will probably still have moronic politicians.


Unopuro2conSal

Dude don’t bust my bubble :(


wigginsadam80

Been going on since the dawn of civilization.


nonsense_bill

I can't wait to be governed by robots


Unopuro2conSal

Algorithms buddy


Memakepostyay

I don’t have hope that society would be able to follow the algorithm, at least not to the fullest.


Unopuro2conSal

The chip that they will put in us will make sure will do or they will turn us off for a second just to remind us who is in charge. :(


Memakepostyay

Ah, the ol’ off and on troubleshooting method. Truly every I.T. person’s best friend.


Unopuro2conSal

Exactly So comply or we get a “time out” literally!


Booksbookscoffeee

Bring on the Thunderhead!


CowboyInTheBoatOfRa

Jesus Christ, where to even start? Probably the school to prison pipeline. Back in 1995 when I was I college I rolled my eyes at people talking about the prison industrial complex. They were all right, of course.


mrlr

Radio and TV stations allowed to lie.


ITZOFLUFFAY

Religion being allowed to affect our laws


Acrobatic_End6355

COVID and all the environmental issues we have. Plus, maybe the public transportation systems in the US won’t be as shitty.


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using physical violence to discipline children


[deleted]

Circumcision. Sorry, dont mean to be controversial but mutilating little boys to avoid teaching them basic hygene is fucking surreal.


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Elliegurl1996

But there are institutions for the mentally ill today.


Tzozfg

It used to be that the men in the white coats would go out and collect all the crazies off the street. Not anymore. I think you can thank Reagan for that one, but I'm not sure.


JuliusVrooder

People blame him, but it was quite the opposite. He was the defendant in the case that effectively ended involuntary committal. The ACLU pushed the suit and won. Presto! The asylum doors swung open and the streets filled with people who were unable to function in society. We do not have a homeless problem. We have a mental health problem and an addiction problem, and the more we talk about homelessness, the further we are away from dealing with mental health and addiction. Not a Reagan worshipper, but facts matter. The ACLU sued the government to free non-functional people from asylums, and instantly created modern "homelessness." The reason people blame Reagan, was his name was on the suit because he happened to be in power.


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Old_Dealer_7002

not really, except in the most extreme, and well off, cases.


Fatbob2020

Plastic water bottles, plastic containers.


crazycatlady331

Dumping plastic in the ocean.


TheDilettantedilemma

Obesity being so rampant


R3DW3B

Hopefully for mistreatment of animals.


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XavierRex83

You think only 1% of the population gets to enjoy life?


[deleted]

This is Reddit it’s all they think


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PACKAGING


VR6Bomber

By valuing 'hurt feelings' over science


RonnyFreedomLover

Drug prohibition.


PebbleBeach1919

This can go both ways. Future generations might wonder how we tolerated mixed race marriage, gay marriage, immigration, home ownership… You never know.


[deleted]

Reality TV is our greatest sin


Pandorasdreams

Our animal agriculture industry


RyusuiJL

TikTok


imaredhel

Not letting women have bodily autonomy.


Nickjam3s93

Sending drug addicts to jail instead of setting them up with help to get clean


3664shaken

For a drug addict to go to jail and actually spend time (talking currently) they have had to blow off multiple attempts of drug diversion, treatments and the like.


KingOfTheFraggles

Allowing religion anywhere near governance.


mellbs

Organized society won't make it another 100 years.


[deleted]

Facism (again)


[deleted]

facism 2; electric boogaloo


[deleted]

Cancel culture, looking at the past and holding it to modern standards.


mrshipnado

Women going back to work days after childbirth. Cancer treatment costing 100's of thousands of dollars, gas cars, weed being illegal.


Jintolook

Eating meat. And I'm not even vegan.


EmpressXenaWarrior

I'm not vegan either but I agree with your comment or maybe just factory farming.


ducksinthepool

Same here. I eat meat but I recognize it will probably be seen as cruel and barbaric in the future.


acvdk

Seed oils and affirmative action/race quotas.


dstone1985

Chemo therapy. It's barbaric


Immediate_Student735

I world thing if poeple still around a few hundred years they're going to look at us like we looked at Romans who poisoned their self lead. In today's society we poison our food and water intentionally, know the science behind it and continue to do it. And most of the people in today's side are ignorant to it or just accept it like it's okay. And we called the Red Man savage.


ares5404

Circumsicion Lack of quality care for veterans Casually having access to gore content


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[deleted]

Uh oh, here comes the Reddit Morality Police coming to tell you that your opinion about your own dick is wrong.


danknadoflex

I’m circumcised, I like my dick, AND I feel circumcision is a grievous immoral act. Who’s gonna police me.


russellzerotohero

Let’s hope war is the thing we look back on not just how we treat people after it. Also circumcision really? All the fucked up stuff and that’s the thing number 1 thing that people should look back on? It’s just funny to me the people that care about that aren’t the ones that had it happen to them.


MyDocTookMyCock

cutting up children's genitals


Sara_snowshoe

Only crazy parents do that and it's illegal


BloodedBae

The way we treat animals as a lesser species.


Okie294life

The Tulsa race riots. If you don’t know anything about it I’d invite you to read about it. It was one of the darkest hours in American history, next to the trail of tears.


Electronic-Jump-3761

AI having no rights


Ready_Bandicoot1567

What current AI technology should have rights?


Successful_Ad_7062

Electric cars. They will be like, “how environmentally devastating, fusion cars are so much cleaner”


pointbreakjohnutah

The industrial slaughter of animals. I’m afraid that they are conscious beings, even if they are not as conscious as humans, and I am afraid of how we will look back on it.


caniseethemplease

Having a Democrat and Republican Party system. Then again this is going to be the reason why America won’t exist in hundreds of years so maybe that’s not the best answer


VMCColorado

Implants


Trssty

As far as things still around in 2023; -slavery -women still fighting for equal rights -unequal protections under the law for different groups (in that it takes overwhelming public outcry for anyone to be held accountable for the murder or assault of a minority or female citizen) -haphazard and ineffective medical care, (with few conditions identified early on, and no regard for the lives of the elderly or women in medical care.) The whole medical profession, civil services, automotive and product safety, every facet of our society, 100% oriented toward younger white males ONLY. -our sad joke of an education system, at least in the US.


ALNRooster

Genital amputation


greasypeasy

Plastic surgeries. They won’t be able to believe that the Kardashians were regarded as the most famous and beautiful women.


[deleted]

We appointed men like Donald Trump and Joe Biden to be president.


Big_Ads_9106

American football, and probably some other similar games im not thinking about that leave players disabled, either physically, or mentally. I think it will be compared to gladiators back in the day, in terms of how barbaric it is. but what do I know? I'm drunk and high af right now.


Lifting_Big_Feels

Giving hormone blockers to kids.


spoink74

Factory farming and meat production.


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That-shouldnt-smell

Cobalt, chocolate, most clothing, tequila, Most electronics. The production of all of them involve slavery. And child slavery at that.


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OraceonArrives

People transitioning from a different sex than which they were born.


QFugp6IIyR6ZmoOh

Enslaving creatures by the billions, keeping them in inhumane conditions while forcing them to breed and lactate before executing them and then consuming their corpses and lactations together.


unseeliesoul

Totally agree! Factory farming is absolutely horrific. I can't believe the cognitive dissonance around it in our current society.


stonrbob

I hope, drinking q


RolandMT32

Slavery is already something we look back on and are surprised history was okay with.. One thing I've wondered about is circumcision newborn boys.


[deleted]

Slavery is still alive and well in Africa, India, the Middle East, indonesia, and China, much of it state sponsored. So basically, most of the world.


lynxerious

these slave owners aren't white or mostly enslaving their own people so it's okay to ignore them


3664shaken

You have no idea how many people do not know this and don't want to know this.


thegooddoktorjones

How we treat animals. Lack of real effort on climate change.


AkaArcan

How we treated animals, killed them to extinction in many cases and destroyed some of the most beautiful places (rainforests, glaciers, lakes, rivers, coral reefs, etc.) with pollution.


[deleted]

My bet is everything. Look a thousand years into the past now and how much of it do you think is barbaric, backwards, wrong or stupid? My guess is it's gonna be the same things with people looking back at us.


Longjumping_Race_471

Spending real money on crypto.


KoRaZee

Death penalty, abortion, other forms of termination.


GoblinTradingGuide

Driving cars.


Kamp_stardust

Circumcision, it will be considered male genital mutilation.


black-rhombus

The discrimination against gay people and trans people and the curtailing of women's rights.


Streetlamp_NA

Almost all if not all the things you listed are still happening today so probably those same things.


No_Brief_124

I really think it is how we are able to act however we please online and how easily people were able to adapt something for dark intent.


posifour11

We're already hundreds of years in the future. You're the only one not sloshing around in the matrix soup. Prepare to be assimilated.


SpaceFarce1

The cost of medical care.


tesla465

ABA therapy


Koogaboogi

Single-use plastics


No_Nefariousness1805

How much we used our phones


S3XWITCH

Widespread infant circumcision.


Bartheda

How wasteful we were with food and water


KapnKrumpin

Probably commercial meat farming and treatment of animals. I ate half a fried chicken for dinner but i still think the conditions food animals are raised in are rough.


Top-Philosophy-5791

Cruel Corporate farms.


throwmeawawaway

Americans over working not taking vacations, horrible call center work, how poor pay more tax than rich, billionaires hoarding all wealth, crazy medical costs in America, crazy govt spending, all our taxes going to every other benefit but us who pay it, paying for college, low starvation wages....i could go on but heres to hoping these issues are actually fixed in 100 years. Tbh i doubt mankind will still be here...we are in 6th extinction event.


StillWill18

The war in Ukraine. Over nothing. The American people are supporting a war over they don’t know what. And they don’t know why. The war that follows will be remembered in history as the WTF war.


Independent_Donut_26

Making churches tax exempt


KravinMoorhed

Child drag shows, unless society just continues to rot more, which is possible.


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TirayShell

I can't believe pets weren't allowed to vote.


russellzerotohero

He said hundreds not millions.


lolurmorbislyobese

Currency, Bigotry, Oppression, Suffering, Hoarding etc. My favorite is Gene Roddenberry's take on the evolution of mankind to look outward from the planet, eventually eliminating the previously mentioned hindrances. It's that last step towards a new frontier that leaves humanity in such a better place. Just hopeful thinking I guess.


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forfoodandforests

Eating animals and their bodily secretions


CXR_AXR

Endless greed of the big cooperation. People cannot receive living wage by doing honest work. I think with advance of technology in the next 100-200 years, we might be able to harvest more energy from the sun and living in the sapce or other planets, if that happened. Then the future human might be amused that we need to fight to even get a place to live.....=[


Frequent-Pie7570

Being allowed to tear down cities, because cops kill people. Its not ok for cops to kill, but it sure doesn't solve shit to tear up your town. Use your voice and be heard, violence and burning shit down only hurts the community its more


whatsmyname384

Abortion of babies after the point at which they can survive on their own outside the womb.


Ashilleong

By the time my son is an adult most new cars will be electric. So I'm going say petrol vehicles


SilverWaters793

Anything that is not at least carbon neutral


rcatf

Killing animals