ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
The kids of the boomers are giving them out.
you're just wrong, bro. my parent's generation are boomers and gave out trophies to their millennial kids
The kids of the boomers are giving them out.
The kids of the boomers are giving them out.
you're just wrong, bro. my parent's generation are boomers and gave out trophies to their millennial kids
Yeah, RJ is wrong. I'm Gen X and got participation trophies in the 70's and 80's from Baby Boomers.
That's one way to put it. I think of phone technology for example. A generation ago, a phone was a purely social tool, a way for people to talk to each other all over the world in real time. Now our phones do that but we don't use them to do that. Instead, social media doesn't facilitate communication, it paints the idealized version of people. If you only used Facebook or Instagram albums to judge how a person you've lost touch with is, you'll think their lives are all beach vacations and sunsets and fancy food and cute dogs. I think that's where the self absorption comes in, where not only are you showing this heavily curated version of you, you're also only getting the most superficial glance into other people's lives. That is of course just the social aspect of technology's impact on society. It's also to say nothing of the dumbing down of the way we communicate, text over talking, shorthand over complete sentences, no eye contact, etc. The way we consume media and culture is so different too, in thirty seconds you can get a simulacrum of an art gallery or a mountainside or a song or a play or a tv show by using your smart phone. That sets up the hedonic treadmill where we're never satisfied and always saturated.
The economic impact is still perhaps greater. Microsoft Office alone has increased the productivity of the average workplace to such a staggering and immeasurable degree, but production has so far outstripped wage growth that today's completely drowning in debt young workforce is making less in real wages to do more work than their parents in the same office job. Things are only accelerating in that direction as automation is making our lives easier and putting people out of work.
Boomer piece of shit reads article (probably still hasn’t read) about how boomers are pieces of shit, immediately responds with typical boomer piece of shit blame game and deflection.
This all began when economic policy shifted to cement the preference of growth over employment
Boomers are much more likely to start our own businesses than millennials. That's on you.
What do you need to start a business? Capital.
Hard to build capital when college prices are exploding, wages are stagnant, and most new jobs are minimum wage.
The internet should help entrepreneurs. It gives you a great chance to prove concept, to do cheap marketing, to partner with others.
Because if the internet, you can try things quicker and with a worldwide audience rather than a local one. When i was your age, it was nearly impossible to partner with people even in developed nations like England Germany and France. Unless you worked for a giant company, it was difficult, time consuming and expensive to get info on other markets or how to tweak a product or service for them.
I am not saying it's a panacea. It basically killed number of industries like travel agents, music recording and others. It's harming publishing in general.
As to skills, each generation will have different skills as they should. Each new generation should improve on the previous one's skills. Some skills will go by the wayside. New ones will make them obsolete and that's OK.
If you guys actually paid attention to many of my posts rather than having Pavlovian responses, you'd see my #1 gripe is your generation doesn't take enough chances. Who cares if you fail once or twice or five times? Each time you should learn more.
But you guys have to swing from your constantly defensive positions.
It's not a dumb point. millennials cry about no jobs. Boomers, GenX and people before us started our businesses.