Kids These Days Should Have It Too Easy

Or: Why being a grumpy old fart about younger generations is dumb.

Matthew Maniaci

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Photo by Giacomo Lucarini on Unsplash

We all know the grumpy old man joke. “When I was your age, I walked to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill, both ways!” We would chuckle at our grandfathers or fathers as they told that goofy joke, playing up their suffering for a laugh.

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Matthew Maniaci

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.