Curious......when did this "I need it now" mentality start???

[a kennedy]

I really think it all started with the remote control to our TV.....JMHO....when that item came into our lives....we all needed it NOW. FOOD NOW, MEDICAL ATTENTION NOW, ANYTHING ORDERED ON LINE, NOW. it’s the gawd damn remote control that started it all.

[braddy]

1. I thought it started with high school dating.

[a kennedy]

2. Ha ha.....

[JoeOtterbein]

3. Sick and old people who will likely die before we get MFA, said "We...

...need it NOW!"

[yellowdogintexas]

4. well the old already have Medicare

now let's get the sick on board and everyone else

[JoeOtterbein]

8. Yes, because old people want to die knowing their children will have healthcare.

[Mariana]

15. Sadly, most old people voted for Trump in 2016

and most old people will probably vote for him in 2020. I hope I'm wrong.

[UniteFightBack]

5. Two words...credit cards. nt

[42bambi]

6. Thanks for the much needed laugh!

[Liberal In Texas]

7. For me? Amazon Prime.

I can get crap I want or need in less than a day.

Go figure.

Now they have Whole Foods. 2 hours! All the food I need 2 hours delivered!

And Bezos is going to be sending us peeps to the moon soon. Fuck a duck!

[Renew Deal]

9. When do you need to know by?

[Silent3]

11. Although it's nice to get deliveries in a day or two, I'd happily wait a little longer...

...if that improved the lives and safety of employees who are being pushed way too hard to meet the demand for fast delivery.

On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't want to go back to the days of my youth (the 70s in my case) when practically anything I wanted to order was 4-6 or 6-8 weeks for delivery.

[keithbvadu2]

12. G-grandma at the woodstove watching teenager complain how long the microwave takes.

G-grandma at the woodstove watching teenager complain how long the microwave takes.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. And, don't dare ask the teenager to fetch wood.

n/t

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. That which proceeded it is what gives us a clue..

The advent of "anything and everything is readily available" and "at the price you want" mentality were the roots of "I need it now" thinking.

When I was a kid (50s/60s), many products were scarce and relatively much more expensive than now. To get many things, we would have to drive a long way to the big city. Even most good hand tools (of better than five-and-dime store quality) required either mail order or a 40-mi. drive to town.

Therefore, everyone thought out their purchases and rarely bought things on a whim, and people did not waste things as they do now. Interestingly, that seemed to apply to rich and poor people because everyone had gone through the Great Depression and WW2.

The internet and a globalized supply chain for virtually everything eliminated most of those old-fashioned ways.....

[GusBob]

16. Interesting question really

Remote control? Maybe
Drive thru fast food perhaps?
7/11 stores maybe?
Shopping malls?

Phones and telecommunications is a huge part of it
This aint a mail order world anymore