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Excuse my exasperation. The comment I replied to was exactly saying those arguments and I was addressing those arguments alone. I never said modern technologies don't have an impact and your interjection with the topic implied you agreed that tech caused a fundamental generational change that validated the idea of "kids these days". If you gave a smartphone with social media to a sentinelese child, they would probably develop behavioural issues as well. But that doesn't mean this change would be universal to their entire cohort of children or that he was magically a new kind of child fundamentally different from the previous generation. To claim that "kids these days scream more" is precisely the kind of ignorant generalization I'm referring to, and it is born out of generational bigotry. It's not a new phenomenon, it's well historically documented. It's the source of the generational rift that has plagued every generation from boomers to millennials, to gen z, etc. Kids today are under new and unique circumstances, just like every kid from every generation has always been.