That’s what they used to be, they were there to take care of you when you got old.
Now that we have more resources we can afford such luxuries as “not letting rich people randomly murder poor people for sport as much” and “slavery is bad, try to keep it low profile”.
Mostly people who had the worse ideas are dying, and young people are allowed their own opinions independent from their parents and older society now, this is a huge change that only started this century.
In a way, the internet was originally a massive youth underground revolution where everybody got together and realized old people didn’t actually know that much.