Sugar, spice and too little nice

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.

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.

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.

Gen Z is probably as illiterate at least.

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.

The world is so much easier to reason about when an entire generation can be explained by a meme though.

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?

Most 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...

There’s still plenty in our fuel and food, don’t worry!

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?

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

Let us not forget the man behind the miracle. He went on to invent so much more than that, too!

What's genx?

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)

It'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.

Gen 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.

Here I thought tech ran on magic purple smoke

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the 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.

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.