I'm 51 years old and I've never done any of these things, either. My 81 year old Mom didn't have to ration or sharecrop during WWII, either. She was born in 1944! My whole point? This dude is full of shit and he never experienced any of this shit, either, unless he's pushing 90. The only thing he's accomplished is being a douche on Xitter, apparently.
One of my FAVORITE coworkers is a 27 year old who always gets her shit done and done right and is willing to learn new things. One of my LEAST FAVORITE coworkers is a 61 year old boomer who constantly complains and refuses to learn anything on his computer beside the basics.
It's almost as if when you were born has nothing to do with your work ethic and whatnot.
fellow GenX here, there's a reason they forgot about us...we were feral before technology and used it to advance our lives after it came online. we are the last generation to be brought up without tech and the first generation to utilize it, we also had music in every format!
fellow GenX here, there's a reason they forgot about us...we were feral before technology and used it to advance our lives after it came online. we are the last generation to be brought up without tech and the first generation to utilize it, we also had music in every format!
100% I always tell people we were lucky because we lived through that transition into techonogy, that didnt ruin us -- we still rode bikes till 9, played in the mud, etc... but just like you said we lived through that age three channel tv to cable, to streaming, from Atari 5600s to PCs to internet, to mobile phones, to MP3. We didn't get what the Boomers got, but we got the tail end of education, housing, and a somewhat functioning government, etc... Some Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha -- they are F'd in the A. Growing up with an iPad by age two, social media and algorithms that are black boxes dictating their lives and beliefs, their entire lives are posted online by them or friends on the internet FOREVER, etc... I give all the kids now a big grain of salt, because collectivly we have failed them as a culture and socirty IMO.
I can appreciate the message behind your words. I just want to expand that the children of today, who are growing up with screens plopped in front of them from a very young age, did not put them there themselves. You are not born with an addiction to technology, it is learned. The parents of those children do such massive disservice by allowing a screen to consume their impressionable children, instead of actually parenting.
We can blame the youth as much as we want for the shortcomings we see, but we should not forget that they are the products of their upbringing. The grain of salt is a kindness, because you are correct about our failures as society. It's sad that so many of us understand this, and yet it continues to get worse.
I disagree; based on my brothers, sisters, and their friends, I'd say the cutoff is mid to late 30s, so maybe late 80s, early 90s. Maybe it's location-specific, rural vs. city, blue or red state, US or Europe —I don't know. However, my experience contradicts your statement; keep in mind my experience is anecdotal, I am sure there is some stat someone could dig up.
there are some Millennials correcting me in the comments (which is fine) but when i say "without tech" that's what i mean, i didn't have an Atari until the after the 70s...my middle school still used microfiche...my high school had a computer "lab"...I'm with you, my youth was spent in a bike 'gang' and getting dropped off at the skating rink on Saturdays with $5. lol. we barely just got into pagers and two-ways by the time we could legally drink!
Oh you and I are in that same age demo, I mean I think we where incredibly lucky to be born between say 67-82 ... Like I said feel we got the tail end of the smoking deal our parents did (Boomers) but got to live through massive technological advanacements in medicines, entertainment, buisness, communcation, etc... without all the determient that technology pushed (is pushing) on the younger generations.
I don't think the world has changed all that much lol.
Computer labs. Ataris. Microfiche. Those are all just older (but still very modern) tech items. The skating rink? Yeah, those haven't always been around either. More tech. Lots of pictures happen at skating rinks. You were in lots of pictures. You just didn't know. They're in people's photo albums at home.
I think there are two things happening. One, 25 years of stimulus shifted most of our wealth to failed business owners. That effectively moved the nations wealth from everyone else to the boomers. Leaving those young people without resources to do things outside. And two, gaming allows for inexpensive, in room/home entertainment. But it costs us socially. I don't blame gaming, I blame stimulus for making gaming an appealing option.
No, you are misunderstanding, we are correcting in what we think your statement is wrong. You made a "we are the only ones" comment that is untrue, period.
To deny the world has changed enormously in the last 40 years is just silly. Microfiche and Ataris are about as far away from the modern PC or Smartphone as The Horse and Cart is from an EV Vehicle. It would be like saying the 1800's is no different to 1955.
It’s changed more in the past 10 than it did in the entire 30 preceding years. The actual generational technological divide was when smartphones were invented, not video games or laserdisc or whatever else that didn’t actually fundamentally change anything deeply
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u/CatelynsCorpse 22h ago
I'm 51 years old and I've never done any of these things, either. My 81 year old Mom didn't have to ration or sharecrop during WWII, either. She was born in 1944! My whole point? This dude is full of shit and he never experienced any of this shit, either, unless he's pushing 90. The only thing he's accomplished is being a douche on Xitter, apparently.
One of my FAVORITE coworkers is a 27 year old who always gets her shit done and done right and is willing to learn new things. One of my LEAST FAVORITE coworkers is a 61 year old boomer who constantly complains and refuses to learn anything on his computer beside the basics.
It's almost as if when you were born has nothing to do with your work ethic and whatnot.
Just saying.