Why so many gloom and doomers on this site

MopaR&D said
I just got back from a trip to France where gas is over $9/gallon and toll road fees are many times what they are here. They also don't have auto parts stores like here and very stringent regulations on what you can or can't do to modify a vehicle.

I'm sure most of these whiners have never traveled to a foreign country. Visit literally ANYWHERE else in the world and you will realize that no matter how bad things get here we still have it way better than most of the rest of the world. People have just gotten spoiled and soft and also don't realize that the economy of the 1950s-1990s was a special case that will never happen again.

Complaining is stupid. Get out and do what you can to fix the problems you see in the world, understand your limitations, and just GO. Ironic these days I hear older people complaining more than people my age (20s-40s); past 30 years have generally sucked so it's nothing new for us young folk we don't really have "the good old days" to look back on and tbh it's really frickin annoying to listen to old people whine and compare back to "their time". It ain't your time anymore, get over it.

So what does France have to do with it? We aren't there. They have the ability to set the direction of their life and if it isn't like it is here, or as good as it is here, they made it like that.

It isn't "our" time any more. Agreed. But when it was, you could get parts in a timely manner, 99% of the time they fit without a rework, and 99% of the time you weren't replacing them because of quality issues. Customer service was in person, by phone, or by mail and the vast majority of the time it worked pretty well.

So now you are telling me I just have to accept and put up with the **** I contend with on a daily basis? That I just have to "understand" my limitations? And some how that is going to solve the problem of firms hawking Chineseium parts that may or may not fit? That somehow with all the advances in communication, that is going to solve the problem of crappy customer service? That I "understand" all this?

I am so sorry that people of my age "annoy" you when we compare how much better it used to be to what it is now. Somehow I remember something about learning from history. Maybe you should realize that it WAS better back in the "good old days" and quit trying to feed me **** and telling me it's chocolate.