Generalizing entire groups of people usually isn't recommended. I know boomers who would code circles around any of the kids who think that configuring wifi is the height of tech literacy.
94Cool, tell those boomers to tell their boomer peers we are literally on a dying planet and they need to vote for politicians that want to stop the end of the world.
52I understand it's fun to blame boomers for climate change, but this was something that started before their generation existed and it will continue to be a problem after they're gone. You can also blame them for inaction in addressing it, but given that the only real solution is an extreme degree of collective austerity across multiple civilizations, which is something innately at conflict with the expansionist nature of capitalism as an economic system (something which also predated boomers and which will continue to be a problem after they're gone), then I would say that if you expect the problem to start being solved as soon as that generation is dead and buried, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
14Statistically speaking it's young people who don't vote much.
6We're too late to prevent climate change. Our efforts should instead be going towards mitigating the damage that consumerism is doing to our environment.
At this point we need drastic geoengineering and carbon capture solutions.
0lol, child, please, shut the fuck up.
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Oh no! A statement which applies to the vast majority has some exceptions! Better break out the um-actually and technically-incorrect stamps.
As someone who has worked in IT, age has a strong negative correlation with tech literacy. Is every boomer tech illiterate? Of course not. Some boomers built the tech we use today. But most boomers are worse with tech than most ten year olds.
40My generation will have tech illiteracy problems worse than the boomers. Yours will be even worse than mine. It's because most people reach a point where they stop trying to keep up with everything and fall behind.
You'll start to see it after you pass 40 or so. Then when you're in your 60s it'll be your generation's turn to be mocked as the bumbling idiots who ruined the world.
So have fun with that.
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Damn, you know one guy who doesn't fit the mold? Crazy to think there are outliers. Who would have thunk? I am absolutely flabbergasted. Shocking, to say the least.
19I always find it funny: the internet is a lot softer and more inclusive than it ever used to be. Explicit sexism, racism, homophobia/transphobia, etc. are treated with zero tolerance most places. But straight up ageism? That's the last truly accepted form of bigotry. Because getting pissed at a group of people who will be dead soon for not fixing all the world's problems is easy when you're young. When Gen Z gets to be 40 and there are no more Boomers but nothing is still being done to address the world's myriad problems, I like to think there will be some self-reflection on the nature of the world in which they live and the innate difficulty of addressing complex problems driven by societal inertia. But we both know there won't be and they'll probably pivot to hating Gen X and Millennials. Or maybe they'll go the other direction and blame young people.
17Misandry seems to fly pretty often on the internet too.
Most specifically towards CIS white men. Even though I'm not that specific subset, I feel bad for them. Racism, bigotry and etc are tolerated when it's directed at them and they can't even defend themselves. Anytime they try to, they get met with whataboutism. Most of them are just flipping burgers. Just very tiny portion of CIS white men are iconic powerful people.
13I can answer your question: When the Boomers are gone the Millenials will be called "Boomers" and blamed instead.
I dropped into a European Discord server a while back and got called a Boomer when I mentioned my age (40). I'm a Millennial. Apparently the server was full of 16-19yr old kids so I wasn't made to feel very welcome. Not been back since.
But Millenials will most likely take the hit when Boomers are gone except the term "Boomer" is now just a generic insult against people in middle age+.
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Gen Z is probably as illiterate at least.
16That's primarily because boomer politicians replaced effective literacy programs with programs that allow those with learning disabilities and other intellectual impairments to navigate the world. This means that many gen Z and younger millennials were robbed of quality education that enables self-directed study and critical analysis of text. Primarily so that connected education product companies could make a profit.
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I know boomers who would code circles around any of the kids who think that configuring wifi is the height of tech literacy.
I know one of those too. And all the others call their grandkids to
configure the wifiinstall the internet on their phone for them.14And can't understand the difference between wifi and cellphone data, because their wife pays the bills for them.
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The world is so much easier to reason about when an entire generation can be explained by a meme though.
11I'm with you, remindes of this fun article on our human desire to see things black and white
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And yet they will still have, compared to the average beyond their age group, significantly higher lead content in their blood.
I’d bet significant money that the ones who are able to fill technical and intellectual roles are the ones who were lucky enough to avoid the worst of the toxic air.
There’s a reason boomers are almost universally fucking dumb.
10Yeah, people who grew up with boomers as parents, teachers, bosses, weird aunts, etc. Find the ultra- reductiveness to be very silly. The labeling of the entire post war generation as incompetent neocons has never fit well except in the minds of people whose only knowledge of history comes from tiktok. Where do they think their anti- establishment ideas came from? Do they think the hippies and civil rights activists were millennials or something?
8Most people of any generation don't know anything about Computers besides the most basic things. Too many people asked me to burn CDs for them because it was too difficult, I was like 11yo when people asked me...
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Lead for "ingredient X" is too spot on, made me chuckle.
30Talking about ingredient X, why was there a huge glass flask full of it right above the tank for the professor to accidentally break it?
5Muther fuqqen MoJo JoJo created the rowdy rough boys from a prison fermentation toilet using Armpit hair, Snails , and puppy dog tail...why would the professor have chemical X above his tank? ...There was no accident. He is a baddie, but because he created super good heroes he has to live a lie for the rest of his life. 🧐🤔
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Cigarettes
And I would say that the climate denialism and tech illiteracy are a product of entitlement.
27I don't judge the previous generations for being poisoned. It is just going to be microplastics for us and we don't even really know what it can do to us.
Fuck their entitlement though.
25Wait'll you find out about the esters, bromides, and hydrogenated fats! Lol, you guys are so screwed.
Now excuse me, I have to get to my chemo appointment
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Was? You can still buy leaded gasoline at any airport today
12Ever so slowly being phased out in the US https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-declares-lead-emissions-small-piston-engine-aircraft-pose-public-health-2023-10-18/
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Let us not forget the man behind the miracle. He went on to invent so much more than that, too!
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boomers are just TV generation millennials anyway.
18What's genx?
5The people writing the Boomer vs Millennial culture war articles.
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Raised on the date-rapey "happy days" as a feel good lesson learned. Until fonzie jumped the shark
4At least Happy Days have us Mork and Mindy, somehow.
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Stfu, I'm not responsible for fucking up the planet anyhow
(I know it's a joke, I just think it makes no sense to compare each mindset-wise)
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Just looked up polls, and more than half of boomers answered that "climate change should be a top priority." A higher percentage of millennials believe that than Gen Z, which is surprising to me (and a bit worrying).
15It's likely that GenZ is just fatigued and apathetic to climate change. They might have just resigned to their fate, knowing the world governments and greedy corporate vermin won't let anything meaningful happen in their lifetime.
14Gen Z is primarily too young to have had life hit us in the face overall. A Good portion of us are still not even legally adults.
Your first job + Reality overall is a game changer.
Ask Millennials, they were on a similar track to boomers before 2008.
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Boomers will say "chemical bad, I came from God and incest"
12tech illiteracy is candy and rainbows ._.
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Uhhh, the FaceBook?
5m&d are dumb. lied about santa claus. why was I born
3LEAD, MORE LIKE GOATed!!! BOOMER4LYF
SWAG!
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1Yeah, we are so much better than them because ... (insert own reason of entitlement)!
classic phrase repeated each generation since recorded history
0Tech illiteracy will happen to most everyone, get off your high horses. Replace lead with microplastics or some shit for future generations. I'm sure the next generations will hate gen Y/Z just the same.
-2Constantly confusing "boomers" with "industrialists". How disingenuous. No wonder nothing gets fixed.
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-7the boomers were the creators of the internet and tech
No, a very tiny number of them were. The vast majority can just about connect to their own wifi assuming the guide was printed and not a QR code.
Gen Z grew up with tech just basically works, and hides all the complicated stuff behind 17 submenus and automatic installs. I know plenty of gen Z who literally don't know what a file path is.
Millenials and Gen X are the generations who needed to know tech if they wanted to use it. Unlike tech savvy boomers, there's a lot of them, since computers were consumer products by then. And unlike gen Z, nothing was simple or automatic and there were no guides. You learned how to learn, or you didn't get to use a PC for anything other than solitaire.
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1Now that's the truth if I've ever seen it. I'm right at the old edge of Gen Z, and some people just three to five years younger than me have trouble finding that file they downloaded.
Now, I'm not judging for that. If you don't grow up using a PC, how would you know the ins and outs?
But what really gets me if someone needs to use a PC for Uni or work, and still doesn't make any effort to learn after a year or two of using one.
That's just inexcusable, no matter the age.
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The gen x just goes along with everyone because they’ve never had any power and probably never will, they’re being skipped.
I mean that tracks for me.
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