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.
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Cool, 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.
I 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.
Statistically speaking it's young people who don't vote much.
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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.
My 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.
Uhhh… no. Gen z has had to deal with and understand changing technology since birth. I have faith in them.
The only thing boomers have proved is they’re able to do is ruin the economy and fuck over their children.
Gen z doesn't have to understand shit about tech. They've been given apps that work flawlessly since birth. The only people "forced" to understand tech were the late Xers/early millenials where you got some cool new program or hardware and it almost never worked out of the box so you'd have to troubleshoot the shit out of everything before you could even google for answers.
After that plug and play started to work better and after that we got apps.
Exactly this, our first computer came with msdos, if you didn't wanted to type commands in a terminal, you couldn't play games. If you didn't wanted to learn how to setup your soundcard for every game, the game had no (or super crappy) sound.
It's not about understanding tech at all. I work in a software development team and have a pretty deep understanding of how a lot of tech works. But I never owned an Apple device, so I can't tell you basic shit about a how use iOS.
Gen X had to learn learn how a computer works at a pretty basic level just to be able to use one. I took basic computer skills and programming for the TI 994a in elementary school. Then another hardware/software class around 5th grade. It was pretty easy to troubleshoot anything hardware or software until the mid 2000s.
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Gen z is notoriously tech illiterate for anything but the bare minimum. The amount that have never touched a PC or anything other than an iPhone is incredibly disturbing.
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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.
I 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.
When I'm 80 and the world still isn't fixed, I'll be blaming the billionaires, just like I am right now.
Yes, this was always the correct course of action.
I 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+.
As a representative of Gen X, I can honestly say that I'm glad you think they'll pick on your generation, and leave mine alone.
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Gen Z is probably as illiterate at least.
That'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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The world is so much easier to reason about when an entire generation can be explained by a meme though.
I'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.
Yeah, 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?
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Can't spell leadership without lead. 😤
There’s still plenty in our fuel and food, don’t worry!
"Can I have my steak medium rare with extra microplastics? Only lead? Oh well, I'll take that I guess"
Bitch, you want
‽ don’t worry, no form of water or living creature on the planet is without PFAS. You get all the toxins!
At least they're taking it out of the ocean, I suppose /j
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Lead for "ingredient X" is too spot on, made me chuckle.
Talking about ingredient X, why was there a huge glass flask full of it right above the tank for the professor to accidentally break it?
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Cigarettes
And I would say that the climate denialism and tech illiteracy are a product of entitlement.
I 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.
Wait'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
Was? You can still buy leaded gasoline at any airport today
Ever 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/
Boomers will say "chemical bad, I came from God and incest"
tech illiteracy is candy and rainbows ._.
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