alt Hacker NewsGrandparents also said it about a lot of technologies that actually were worse and didn’t survive. Those are just not around anymore to be the subject of survivorship bias.
I’m not sure when we’re started dismissing the elderly’s advice as “just complaining because they’re old” but it seems we’re hell bent on reinventing the wheel of misfortune with every generation.
If old people complain about something, maybe they have a point?
If they're still complaining about something that's around, do they have a point? How do we know? What things have survived the fires of testing and should just be accepted, and what things can be groused about as bad?
ps. I am a grandparent, on the edge of elderly.