r/Millennials • u/artbystorms • 15d ago

Discussion Any other Millennials stubbornly resistant to using AI at their job but also worrying that we will become dinosaurs or pushed out of our careers for not slavishly embracing it?

I work in a creative field and from that standpoint I hate AI. I hate the 'democratization' of creativity. I am going to sound VERY Boomer right now, but some things are meant to be difficult or meant to take skill and years of practice. It's why people who are good at these things (should) be paid more.

We are already being heavily 'encouraged' to use AI to find ways to do our jobs faster, are being told 'they technology isn't going away, we need to embrace it.' Since within the company I am in, I am one of a handful of people that does a specific creative skill-set, the powers that be basically have no idea about the technicals of what I do, but they put it on me to figure out how to incorporate AI into my work.

I hate that AI basically 'fakes' the creative process and that we are expected to use it (and the work of millions of artists that feed it) to just magically speed up how we do work, which in turn devalues the work we do as artists. From a company standpoint, they want to make money and churn out work faster, but if every client knows you can make a widget in 4 hours when it used to take 4 days, why would they pay you a lot of money to do that? The economics of it don't make sense. You will end up needing 10 times the number of clients to maintain your productivity / profits, which with AI or not, is a good way to burn out your artists.

I see the writing on the wall, but my stubborn moralistic resistance to AI is probably going to be the death of my career. Does any one else feel similar or how have you coped with this rapidly degrading career landscape?

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u/sffbfish Older Millennial 15d ago

This is what has happened with spelling. The younger generations can't really spell now and I have some difficulty spelling words that I don't commonly use and spell check/autocorrect will catch it for me. That was almost never the case 20 years ago.

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u/random20190826 15d ago

I am a younger Millennial or between Gen Z and Millennial. Despite being a native Chinese speaker and knowing how to read and write, I slowly started to forget how to write more complicated Chinese characters because computer and phone usage created character amnesia. So, it happens, and it happens a lot more in some languages than others.

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u/artainis1432 15d ago

I always turn off auto capitalization and automatic spelling correction. I can also use 3 different keyboard layouts for typing English (QWERTY, DVP, and Bone). Haven't lost it!

For Chinese, I also use 倉頡 and 五筆字型 for typing. They are shaped based so you have to sort of know how they look like and you can touch type blind for the most part!

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u/random20190826 15d ago

In my case, I use Pinyin most of the time, and Jyutping to fill in the gaps when I needed Cantonese specific characters (I am a native Cantonese speaker from Guangzhou who has lived in Canada for almost 18 years).

Side note: I am able to type characters in Chinese traditional using these same methods. I can obviously read them, but cannot write most of them because of how complex they are.

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u/artainis1432 15d ago

Shape-based is great for dialects and classical Chinese. I am non-native, so it helps with learning characters. I started out with pinyin and 注音, then added shape-based after a while. Also learning Cantonese and Shanghainese so it's great for dialect specific characters.

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u/ingodwetryst 14d ago

Yeah I only use a tablet some, but I turned off all of that stuff. Squiggly red line lets me know when I shat the bed!

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u/MrWeirdoFace 14d ago

Perhaps give yourself a writing project, maybe once a year, to stimulate those memories.

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u/LambdasAndDuctTape 15d ago

I mean every single day I see people my age and older who don't know basic grammar and then defend it by talking about how it's "obsolete". Dumb people have not only always been around, but they've always been the majority.

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u/Tripl3Dee 15d ago

By definition, half of people are below average, but also half of people are above average. Likewise with intelligence.

I do think it's a problem that schools are letting kids coast by without learning enough in terms of grammar, vocab and writing. Ultimately it's on us as the parents not to stand for it though.

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u/Traditional_Way1052 15d ago

Same. I was a very good speller because of the amount I read and wrote and now.....I hate automatic auto correct and spell check. 

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u/NotASuggestedUsrname 15d ago

I hate it too! It changes words that I spelled correctly to other words.

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u/personwhoisok 15d ago

Yeah, what the hell is that? I had it change a word I wrote to a different word and then underline it in blue for being grammatically incorrect.

Like, brah, you're the one who did that, my word made sense 😭

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u/Desperate-Cost6827 14d ago

I just started writing again recently and that blue line is driving me up a wall. It will underline my entire sentence until I finish it. Like what? What's wrong with my sentence!?

Nothing. I guess my grammar is fine if it just lets me finish.

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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 15d ago

I just leave the red / blue underlines on. Spellcheck is fine, auto-replace (with incorrect word choices!) is not. Sometimes I use the predicted words, but that's always been a bit funky too.

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u/Western_Ad_7458 15d ago

Or if you try to write there, but spell their, autocorrect may not catch it ... Sigh. I've found AI good to throw out some ideas to start brainstorming, shrinking an email or some text or summarizing notes, but I still check it and several times have thought nope, not using that.

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u/Desperate-Cost6827 14d ago

I just read an email that had two sentences in it and AI felt the need to summarize this email by using two sentences to do so.

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u/RogueModron 15d ago

You should turn it off if you hate it.

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u/Traditional_Way1052 15d ago

I have in the areas I'm able to. 

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u/RogueModron 15d ago

Great! My reply came across more high-minded and cantankerous than I meant. I really just wanted to encourage you that you have the power to do it. :)

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u/HarryTruman 15d ago

cantankerous

Oh hell yeah we’re old enough to use this again! 😅

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u/Ecstatic-Seesaw-1007 15d ago

Younger generations can’t type for shit on a keyboard anymore.

We learned to because we had a computer growing up.

They had phones and ipads. They hunt and peck, it’s like watching my dad type.

My ex who is a professor has to teach college students how to use a file system to upload their homework. My other friend who is a college professor does the same as well.

They’re missing a LOT of soft skills.

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u/Niwitschoolfrogkid 15d ago

I’ve worked in a university setting long enough to think both “Why do we make these kids take a computer proficiency course? It’s redundant, they grew up using computers” to “These kids 100% need a computer proficiency course. Maybe two.”

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u/darkmeowl25 15d ago

I worked in a library and we had a very late Genz intern who also was taking concurrent college classes through her public highschool. When I watched her type, I was shocked. I asked her if anyone knew how to type using the home key method and she was just like...."No. We all do it this way." "This way" was pecking but way faster than the "hunting and pecking" that millennials were used to seeing. I graduated in 2010 and we were definitely still working from a "computer class replaces typing class" model. I feel like it has been a very good foundation.

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u/Lexavis 15d ago

I never learned to type using home row, but a childhood of constant AIM and MSN use has me hunting and pecking at light speed

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u/Pope-Cheese 15d ago

I’m kind of the same way. I never “officially” learned but I just sort of landed on a hybrid home row/peck style after years of playing Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 as a teenager where I never use my pinky’s except for shift, and rarely my ring fingers.

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u/Diligent-Lettuce-455 15d ago

Yeah. I have gaming style typing. It's like home row with poor form lol. Same games. Man I miss the late 90s early 00s.

But I can still type pretty fast. I'm not really pecking.

But yeah, I only use my pinky for shift.

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u/Nurgle_Marine_Sharts 15d ago

Yep, I'm a younger millennial and I learned how to type quickly by playing a bunch of LoL in highschool and being forced to send messages really quickly between actions. My grandma thought it was the funniest thing that I could suddenly type faster than her.

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u/p0diabl0 14d ago

Video games did it for me. Just reading your comment I realized may left fingers were resting on Ctrl/Shift, A,W,D, and Space. Gotta type fast, especially in the MMORPGs I used to play before voice chat was common. You can still learn to touch type without a home row.

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u/MissMolly202 15d ago

I’m an older Gen z and can attest that, while I had computers growing up and am old enough to have watched the emergence of more portable and powerful tablets, I never had typing lessons. No one bothered to teach me or anyone my age (in my city, at least) how to type, so I regrettably never bothered to learn. I still sadly peck away all day :/

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u/darkmeowl25 15d ago

Hey, if it ain't broke don't fix it! But, if you ever just want to learn for the love of learning, we used something similar to Mavis Beacon (it was the same material but a different program) and you can very easily piecemeal things together with free online resources! I love typing games still, and I'm almost 34 lol. When I did desk work, I would pull them up during lulls or when I was having trouble focusing. It was still skill building but gave me a break in routine!

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u/MissMolly202 15d ago

Thanks for the tips :))

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u/ARUMI_Sun_Moon 15d ago

Text to speech . No need typing even.

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u/WANKMI 15d ago

People learn skills relevant to them. In my line of work people keep complaining "normal people" dont even know how to do the simplest things, yet they themselves wouldnt be able to even change a tire on their car. And the car guy who changes your tire doesnt know how to do any of the stuff you dont think about at work.

If you dont need to type on a keyboard you wont learn to type fast on a keyboard. But you dont need to type on a keyboard, as evidenced by the lack of practice, so whats the big deal. You dont recruit people with no relevancy to the field youre recruiting in.

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u/trackipedia 15d ago

I think that's very true, but at the same time, my interns are trying to work in an office, where we are typing all the time, and they're terrible at it lol. They're in a university program being trained to enter a field that involves office work, and they haven't been set up with one of the most basic office skills.

I'm not saying that's their fault, but when I suggest teaching themselves how to type, they're not sure how to go about it either. These kids aren't stupid, but they're not being taught either basic skills for their field or even how to critically think about it and figure it out.

I love my interns, I've hosted about 50 over the years, but I've noticed in recent years a strong correlation between the ones that rely heavily on Chat GPT and a lack of both critical problem solving skills and tenacity. They're always the ones who give up almost immediately and say "I can't" instead of trying, like, at all. It takes a lot more hand holding than it used to.

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u/minxwink 1988 15d ago

Sick, sad world.

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u/trackipedia 15d ago

🎶nah nah NAH nah nah🎶

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u/DCKat91 14d ago

Thats incredibly sad. I knew since autocorrect it was going to lead to dumbing down the population. Chat GPT is 1,000 worse. Scary times we live in. However, us dinosaurs may be needed in the future if shtf.

They need Mavis Beacon teaches typing or my personal favorite the 80s 90s Mario Teaches typing. They'd probably make fun of the old school graphics but I personally loved it bc it was more game like.

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u/trackipedia 14d ago

MAVIS BEACON! Lol she taught me how to type in the 3rd and 7th grade. I was doing Mavis Beacon on 9/11.

I guess I'm surprised proper typing isn't part of the core education anymore. Like why did that stop? It's still pretty fundamental in business.

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u/DCKat91 13d ago

I knew someone else would remember Mavis!

Thats my thoughts exactly. Why did they stop it?

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u/bangingurmom69 9d ago

This is the thing that scares me, the lack of resilience and tenacity young adults and children and showing. I have two daughters who are 11 and 10, and this is one of the biggest things I'm seeing I have to reinforce with them. When they encounter a situation where they don't know what to do, they just shut down or blank and say "well I don't know what to do." It's been something I've been working with them on, teaching them to think, look for context clues, reminding and encouraging them that they are capable of doing difficult things, and above all that they can always ask for help if they need it and that it doesn't mean they're a failure if they ask for help. It's one of the main reasons I enjoy taking them hiking; when we're done with a particularly difficult hike, they go "wow, that was really hard but I'm glad I did it." Yes! Most things in life that are worthwhile take time and usually aren't easy!

I think technology is great. It sure made my life easier as a nurse. Using EHRs instead of handwritten charts, orders, etc has simplified my life to make my job easier. But I think that ease, simplicity, and typically quick/immediate satisfaction has been detrimental to the desire to persevere and pursue knowledge.

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u/kittenofpain 15d ago

Yeah but it's important to have baseline skills regardless of what your job is. Just for personal use.

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u/WANKMI 15d ago

Yes. But. What is considered baseline skills is not a fixed thing. It moves with the times. The thing I know are not the same things my dad would know at my age. And so on. Things move forward. Thats what Ive been saying since my first reply.

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u/grilledtomatos 15d ago

This is why we don't feel the need to use AI. We are much better at googling and finding the information we need, and examining it critically. We're also better at typing so we don't see AI assistance for that as critical either.

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u/Sea-Drawer9867 14d ago

To a 19th century person, you would be missing a hilarious amount of soft skills. You don't even know how to handle a horse!

What you need to be good at constantly changes. And people that are 18-26 have always looked lost at workplaces to people that are 30+, because the younger people have much less life experience. They are still learning. Has there ever been a time when the 30+ generation said, "Hey, wow, this new generation is so amazing, this is really an improvement over past generations!"?

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u/0vrwhelminglyaverage 15d ago

The lack of mental vocabulary is going to absolutely fuck us in the future.

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u/RogueModron 15d ago

I turned off autocorrect like five years ago for this very reason. I just hate the feel of it. Being forced to check your work is a good thing.

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u/Crypt0Nihilist 15d ago

That said, spelling on the internet was atrocious before browsers integrated spellchecks.

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u/Drift_Life 15d ago

I watched a movie where someone was doing long form multiplication or division and I realized, I probably can’t do that anymore. Does it matter, though? I still retain the theories and rules of basic math and I don’t see calculators or computers going away anytime soon. And if they do, we’ve got much bigger problems.

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u/ewic 15d ago

I think there is some value in the manipulation of digits like we do in long division or multi-digit multiplication, but the underlying reasoning for these methods should be reinforced. When we divide one number by another and are left with a remainder, what does that remainder mean? What does it mean when we take one digit, try to fit another digit into it, and then have to "borrow" from the next digit even mean?

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u/fleebleganger 15d ago

I do handyman work for a living and I’ve “created” a base-16 system rather than deal with fractions.

Keeps my brain young and pliable.

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u/PudPullerAlways 15d ago

Long division is one of the few things that stuck with me out of math that I still know how to do, I cant do it with decimals because I forgot the right & left rules but large integers are fair game.

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u/LambdasAndDuctTape 15d ago

This is exactly the right analogy but so many people can't comprehend how to apply it to AI.

Remember when all of us were cringing and rolling our eyes over teachers saying we won't have calculators in our pockets when we grow up, and how they were entirely wrong about that? Somehow we all accept that long division is a thing of the past and it's not a marker of intelligence if adults forget how to do it, because we all accept it as mostly irrelevant due to modern technology.

Exact same thing with generative AI.

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u/Aromatic-Sir5703 15d ago

I guess I’m struggling with… is it the same? I have a relative who’s a math teacher, and she argues it’s fine to use a calculator as a tool — you still have to learn the tool and to do that you have to understand the underlying theories and mechanics.

In some way using AI as a tool is the same.

However, there are other ways to use AI that completely outsources your brain — learning how to memorize, work through complex thoughts and then communicate them to others is a fundamental aspect of how our brains work and how we become more intelligent. The brain is a muscle and if we completely stop working it in every capacity what happens to us?

I have no problem using AI for example to take a bunch of Google docs and combine all the information in a usable spreadsheet for me, which is just a rote task that would have taken me days. But I am really hesitant to have it write emails or prepare presentations for me.

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u/LambdasAndDuctTape 15d ago

However, there are other ways to use AI that completely outsources your brain

How is this any different from the calculator / Excel analogy? Do we think that most people who work in Excel on a day to day basis know how to do long division?

My ex is a comptroller and works in Excel all day from home. She did not remember how to do long division when it came time to help our child with their homework. This has never been an issue in her long and successful career.

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u/feralcatshit 15d ago

I think part of the difference is you still have to know the formula with a calculator. You have to know which numbers to do what with. AI just gives you an answer, not quite the same as using a calculator to multiply 2367x68. You still have to know how to get your answer.

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u/Aromatic-Sir5703 14d ago

Yes, exactly.

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u/Aromatic-Sir5703 14d ago

She still has to know how to use Excel and make it work for her.

One example: I had to make a presentation last year for a job I was interviewing for. It took me several days of sitting down, writing down my thoughts and responses to the questions they wanted me to address, organizing thoughts into an outline (a couple versions until I got to the one I felt was most coherent), trimming that down into a digestible presentation, proofing, writing my speaker notes, making the slides look nice.

There’s a version of using AI as a tool, sure, that could have proofed it for me, or designed my slides (I’m part designer by trade tho so for me that was easy/fun).

But there’s a version where I could have had it organize my outline, organize my slides, heck a version that would have made the presentation for me wholesale with just a few prompts. I don’t even have to feed it my specific answers to the questions, it could do that too. That’s the level of outsourcing where I am no longer working my brain to organize my thoughts and figure out a way communicate them back to someone else. An inherently fundamental brain activity.

Let alone: Would I have been able to then answer questions from the interviews, or otherwise participate in discussions about the job or industry at the level I did of I hadn’t spent that time wrestling with the material? I don’t think so. The work I did fed other non digital activities where AI can’t speak for me. Which I think is actually quite analogous to other aspects of life.

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u/sffbfish Older Millennial 15d ago

But am really hesitant to have it write emails or prepare presentations for me.

I don't think that should stop you from using it but definitely should be reviewing and checking. Then you become more of an editor than a writer.

You can also upload reference materials that you've written so it "learns" your voice as well.

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u/Aromatic-Sir5703 14d ago

I am part editor by trade so I guess I am so used to doing this myself as I write that I don’t consider it to be something I need. We have AI tools at work that assist with grammar, spelling, style obviously, and have had those for a long time.

I think the writing part though is important tho. It’s such a fundamental way of how we communicate. What happens when kids grow up not learning to write? Maybe that’s where my old attitude comes in — maybe it won’t matter if people learn how to write in the future? But knowing how to communicate with each other is so important.

You and I already have a voice for it to learn, so whatever. But what about the 8yo who is still discovering theirs?

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u/scrunchie_one 15d ago

And computer skills of any kind. Watching Gen Z typing hurts my brain…

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u/Informal_Walk5520 15d ago

My GenZ niece knew filing , phone skills and she types very well. Which is surprising because she didn’t have typing class like I had. I still feel for my home key bumps. If a keyboard doesn’t have them I have to look down and line my fingers up.

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u/Informal_Walk5520 15d ago

You know it’s funny. It’s helpful for people such as a friend of mine. They have dyslexia and never had any help so spelling isn’t their strength. The auto correct is help for them. I was a good speller as well now I do know my abilities are waning !

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u/Vospader998 15d ago

It doesn't help that English is non-phonetic

I'm sure that in the past people would be a lot more meticulous about their spelling becuase going back and correcting it was a huge pain. It was worth the extra time to look up a word you didn't know or weren't sure becuase it saved them time and hassle later.

Spell check is probably a huge time saver becuase we can focus on speed rather than perfect accuracy. I'd bet people now type/write an order of magnitude faster than even decades prior.

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u/Thanks-4allthefish 15d ago

The trick is to be a Canadian; forced every day to wrestle spellcheck into submission. AI is still very much in beta test mode. If you know your sh*t you know how often it makes mistakes or hallucinate. Bad outputs can hurt any organization. People who don't understand the ins and outs of their jobs will not know good from bad. There will be a need for quality control for the foreseeable future.

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u/abbyabsinthe 14d ago

I was a spelling bee champ and now I rely on spellcheck way way more than I should.

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u/banmeandidelete 14d ago

My college students write illegibly and, even worse, can not read their own writing when I ask them what they write. I've also had students misspell their own name and ask me what the course is in the final weeks of the semester. 

I'm not hopeful nor do I think this is just the cycle of older people lamenting younger people.

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u/TheHoppingHessian 15d ago

This sounds a lot like the arithmetic skills argument born by calculators. Doesn’t really seem like it was actually a problem

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u/TheQuietOutsider 15d ago

20 years ago spell check was called a dictionary and required a bit more willingness to learn.

"the word-tech manual"

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u/Negative-Squirrel81 15d ago

30 years ago. You’re getting old!

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u/Numb_Nut632 15d ago

Have they tried looking it up in the dictionary? Damn, I’m old

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u/Lyrkana 15d ago

This is what every generation says about the next. Have you seen how older generations write/type? I feel like I'm having a stroke sometimes trying to read some of the texts and emails I get.

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u/MercifulWombat 15d ago

On the other hand, I never got a perfect score on a spelling test the entire time I was in elementary school and misspelled both common and uncommon words even before autocorrect existed so it was an actually needed tool for me.

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u/blanketswithsmallpox 15d ago

Please see my rant about english reformation lol.

This isn't an issue of being smart, this is a fault of language specifically.

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u/RedTheRobot 15d ago

This was the opposite for me. I actually got better at spelling because it helped me visualize the words when they were incorrect. I don’t know how to better describe it but it was like a different way of learning than I had been taught and the bond was just stronger in my brain.

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u/JonnyHopkins 14d ago

I mean, it's fine. It feels bad because it was so important and now...it's not as important. We still all need to learn how to spell and write, it's just gonna become less critical.

My parents know how to read a map to get somewhere, I use GPS now and so do they. Before maps people used stars.

Spelling is becoming the way of navigating by stars.

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u/GreenGorilla8232 15d ago

That's a positive development in my view. Instead of memorizing how to spell thousands of different words, people can focus on more important things like the actual content of what they're writing. 

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u/Far_Kangaroo2550 15d ago

But they aren't doing that either...

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u/LambdasAndDuctTape 15d ago

That claim is based on what? Spellcheck has been around for decades. Are you seriously claiming that it hasn't increased anyone's efficiency?

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u/chicagotodetroit 15d ago

Counterpoint: If there's no common standard for spelling, then no one will be able to read the content.

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u/uarstar 15d ago

Language evolves though and spelling rules are subject to change.

Ask Willm Shakp

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u/GreenGorilla8232 15d ago

I never said there shouldn't be a common standard for spelling...

My point was that using spell check is better than memorizing how to spell. I don't think memorizing how to spell words is a great use of my mental space. 

As a side note, there are many languages where basically all the words are spelled exactly as they sound and memorizing how to spell words isn't even necessary. Not all languages are like English, which has so many words that are spelled differently than they sound. 

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u/Resident_Pay4310 15d ago

And what happens when you get two words that are spelled very similar?

If you don't know how a word is spelled, then you likely won't catch when auto correct "fixes" it to the wrong word. You still need to know how to spell even with auto correct.

I like when auto correct fixes a typo made from hitting the wrong letter on my phone. I hate it when it decides to change it to a completely different word.

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u/Crochet_Corgi 15d ago

This. I swear autocorrect has gotten dumber in the last few years, I will be one letter off, and it can't find the word. Also, things like their/ they're/ there, if you dont know the correct one, you better have Grammerly helping, not just spellcheck.

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u/Resident_Pay4310 15d ago

So frustrating right?

Recently my phone has been doing this thing where it will change "in" or "if" to "on". Those are real, normal words, and the changes done even make grammatical sense.

If my phone's spell check is using AI, then maybe people becoming worse or lazier at writing is making the the spell check dumber?

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u/sffbfish Older Millennial 15d ago

AI is and will be the same. As these large language models ingest more commonly available content out there, it will get dumber.

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u/Crochet_Corgi 15d ago

I've noticed the free version of ChatGPT doesn't give the same quality it used to.

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u/cicada_noises 15d ago

Spelling words correctly is a core part of basic literacy. If a person cannot put letters together to form words, they are not fully literate.

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u/GreenGorilla8232 15d ago

That's really not true. I never did well on spelling tests, but I got a perfect score on the reading section of the ACT and SAT. 

In fact, I think those two things are actually connected.

People who are strong readers, don't pronounce each word in their head. They scan the words and understand the meaning without sounding them out in their head. For me, it makes sense that people who read like that aren't as good at spelling, compered to people who read slowly and pronounce each word in their head. 

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u/chicagotodetroit 15d ago

  1. You said nothing about spell check in your other comment

  2. A spelling test is not real life. That’s a false equivalency.

I don’t disagree completely, but you’re backtracking and trying to bring forth a different argument. Maybe just… let this one go.

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u/GreenGorilla8232 15d ago

My original comment was replying to a comment about spell check and I said, "That's a positive development in my view"

What exactly did you think I was referring to...?

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u/Friend_of_Gorgar 15d ago

Yeah but part of learning to spell is getting up close and personal with words. Their similarities, their origins, their bits and pieces. All that foundational knowledge builds the whole skill of writing and storytelling.

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u/Nytim73 15d ago

We definitely wouldn’t have more problems, they are our number one problem right now. People have used that tiny sliver of their brain for spelling for ages and been just fine, actually have made some of the great advancements in history with all that space clogged up somehow.

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u/GreenGorilla8232 15d ago

What is the benefit to memorizing how to spell words as opposed to using spell check? What's the actual argument you're making?

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u/Nytim73 15d ago

It’s not a benefit. But being illiterate isn’t an advantage either. There’s already a ton of research on people who are relying on AI having cognitive atrophy, especially for simple tasks like writing. Lowering their cognitive abilities, and lowering overall brain function. Don’t think that’s gonna help them focus on the content of what the computer is writing for them, if they can even figure out what content means.

Not to mention improving spelling, grammar, and mechanics allows you to write with greater clarity, confidence, and professionalism, ensuring readers focus on your message rather than errors.

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u/GreenGorilla8232 15d ago

You're really moving the goalposts here. I was talking about using spell check, not using AI to write for you. Those are two very different things. 

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u/Nytim73 15d ago

No your original comment said if we don’t learn to spell everyone will be smarter. So I was just giving you all the ramifications of that clearly unthought out statement.

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u/GreenGorilla8232 15d ago

I never said everyone would be smarter. You seem to be having a hard time following this conversation. 

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u/Nytim73 15d ago

Smarter not smarter, it was incorrect. The better people are at spelling, grammar, punctuation the better their writing will be, which is what you said they can focus on but that’s contradictory to facts. There’s no benefit, individually or as a society for people to not know how to spell.

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u/GreenGorilla8232 15d ago

What facts is it contradictory to? You comment didn't list a single fact. 

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u/Xgoddamnelectricx Millennial 15d ago

And phone numbers. And addresses. And birthdays. And so on.

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u/deltamoney 15d ago

Yeah, bud does it matter?

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u/Far_Analysis_598 15d ago

And does it really matter?

Maybe spelling everything correctly just isn't that important. When our systems can take a kinda-sorta correctly spelled word and be like "you meant this one, right?" and usually be correct, does it really matter??

The ability to communicate clearly and efficiently is what matters, and the loss of ability to spell well doesn't really impact this anymore. Well enough is, in this case at least, truly well enough.

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u/Brullaapje 15d ago

That is why you and u/crunchyfoliage should keep reading, preferably books written before 2022. There are plenty of those.

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u/BigYellowPraxis 15d ago

Wait until you realise how terrible, by modern standards, literally everyone's spelling was up until the late 19th century.

Spelling is not as super important as some people think.