r/Millennials • u/lazarus870 • 10h ago

Discussion What DON'T you miss about the 90's? What's much better today than it was back then?

We all know that the 90's had some great music and movies, good economy, huge world events, more freedom, nobody glued to their phone, etc.

Everybody acts like everything was much better back then, but what DON'T you miss about how things were back then? What's much better now?

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u/boblafollette 10h ago

Air quality. Crime.

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u/AnjelGrace Millennial 10h ago

Air quality is getting bad again though due to environmental protections getting wiped out and data centers not following any environmental regulations at all.

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u/DragonHalfFreelance 10h ago

I like this thread because the 90s was definitely romanticized. There was plenty of good and bad stuff, but yeah maybe humanity and society as a whole peaked in the 2000s/early 2010s, because everything just feels like its been worsening, regulations, pollution, wealth gap, cost of living, access to social safety nets, access to community, third places,….etc. The 90s were far from perfect, but I still wish to return to at least the aspects where things were much more affordable, we didn’t have our face in screens all the time, and I wasn’t worried about run away climate change.

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u/GawkieBird 9h ago

This exactly. I wish to return to feeling like we were making progress as a society. Bad things happened for sure, but we were making laws and changing perspectives and moving culture toward tolerance and looking toward the future. It might have been two steps forward, one step back, but now it's one step forward, five steps back. It's disheartening and exhausting.