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A woman uses a vending machine that dispenses pre-lit cigarettes for a penny, 1931. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Have you seen this"

10/10 marketing effort

Life really was that easy back then huh (except for that whole racism thing)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

except for that whole racism thing

And great depression thing ... and then the world war 2 thing ... and the Spanish flu and world war 1 only about a decade before.

You can imagine a future person looking at a video of someone with a fidget spinner and thinking "life really was easy back then."

Every generation has different luxuries and problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Guess you don't have to try hard to sell a product if people are addicted to it, be they cigarettes or fidget spinners.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Strangely enough, I almost never see fidget spinners anymore, and I work with kids. I do keep having to pick cigarette butts off the ground tho (not from the kids).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

My daughter has dozens of the things, but she also has ADHD and anxiety and they help her focus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Some corp: "Nobody wants to smoke anymore."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I dunno... I can look back at native Americans before whitey showed up or further back to hunter-gatherers and think they had it pretty easy compared to now. They didn't spend 8+ hours a day, every day working at a thing that's meaningless; they didn't have mortgages or bills; they didn't have traffic; or ads, or any number of the dumb ass things we've made harder in the effort of making things easier.

I'd take a lack of medicine and the possibility of being eaten by wild animals over all the modern bullshit that makes it impossible to just live.