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> everything always seems like it was "better in my day"

Yes, there's no question that this is a major force and you have to try to control for it if you want a hope of perceiving things objectively. (How? I have no idea.)

I sometimes call it nostalgia bias [1]. Things have always been getting worse [2].

It's the same reason why most people think that music was better during whatever period they were first bonding with music.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...



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