Absolutely, COVID was a killer for seniors in so many ways, the illness itself, and the isolation that so many States imposed that hurt older people the hardest. I saw many die before their time, telehealth was promoted as the way to see your doctor, except for years, a physical exam was rare. people died. That's just one example
I volunteer for the BOD for for an HOA with1046 senior homes, needless to say I interact with Baby Boomers all day. I have never heard a bad word about young people, as a matter of fact they admire the very young men and woman, who are well grounded people.
The internet in general, and X in particular are not good sources for realistic opinions from anybody.
One thing that I hear, and experience IRL everyday, is the contempt for Baby Boomers. It's prevalent in every aspect of daily life, I honestly believe the Canadian MAID program is just a trial for what's coming here. And not for just terminally ill people, if you fall, and need hospitalization, a decision will be made early on about the value of your life. Don't dismiss this as a rant, the signs are all there.
Ridicule, name calling and dismissal of every valid opinion because they're a 'boomer' is just the beginning.
My PP is real, I ride a fast motorcycle, keep myself in shape, but years are not just a number as some people think, they will catch me, and you. When that happens, I pray the generation I protected, and kept safe, (ATC) will not turn on me.
As far as the poor choice of careers, by aspiring tech students, all of those jobs will be filled by AI soon.
If you're young and want a good life, learn a trade, we will always need skilled tradesmen, and AI cannot do that. Everything else is a dead end job. Doctors, Lawyers and many professions that are very lucrative now, will be done by a machine, and very soon. But you know all that.
I'm tempted to unsubscribe, your guests all seem to start out with generational warfare, and end up making stupid comments about how baby boomers grew up in a period of abundance.
(Carter was worse than Biden) This is total nonsense, and I don't have time to explain my life story about working 12 hour days at manual labor since 1973, with the social security statement to prove it.
I can only presume these young guests you have do not have the inclination to spend time with a few seniors and ask them about what things were like. 1st hand information is the ONLY information you can trust. Anyone can say anything in a book, or a 2 minute article on the internet. I could go on, but I have to get to work, all that abundance I have, still requires me to work well into my retirement years.
I am sorry you feel that way. This show was about generational politics generally, as the older people I talk to and am close with generally don't understand the political grievances of young people, most of which stem from have having been harangued by former hippies about the importance of the Civil Rights Act (and like nonsense) for their formative years, then being locked up during Covid for the benefit of the old. Of course, that is an incomplete picture. But it is the root of that grievance
More generally, such complaints refer to the bad ones. When older people complain about entitled millenials, as I've heard countless times, they are obviously complaining about the urban hipster crowd...not JD Vance or his type of person.
Overall, I do think the different age groups need to understand the worldviews of the others, as it matters for framing. To tell some 23 year old who finished a computer engineering degree but didn't get a job because Microsoft is hiring H-1Bs and DEI buffoons to "just work harder" is going to be received as poorly as telling a 74-year-old who paid into Social Security his whole life and relies on it that it needs to go away because America can't afford it
I've seen many boomers say that they used to feel that way, but after seeing how bad things are getting, they now agree that the complaints are true in regards to most boomers - just not them specifically.
Personally, I've noticed a lot of older guys dismiss crucial differences, like access to having a wife or not being entirely surrounded by foreigners. You can't "try harder" or "work harder" when you're in an epidemic.
Absolutely, COVID was a killer for seniors in so many ways, the illness itself, and the isolation that so many States imposed that hurt older people the hardest. I saw many die before their time, telehealth was promoted as the way to see your doctor, except for years, a physical exam was rare. people died. That's just one example
I volunteer for the BOD for for an HOA with1046 senior homes, needless to say I interact with Baby Boomers all day. I have never heard a bad word about young people, as a matter of fact they admire the very young men and woman, who are well grounded people.
The internet in general, and X in particular are not good sources for realistic opinions from anybody.
One thing that I hear, and experience IRL everyday, is the contempt for Baby Boomers. It's prevalent in every aspect of daily life, I honestly believe the Canadian MAID program is just a trial for what's coming here. And not for just terminally ill people, if you fall, and need hospitalization, a decision will be made early on about the value of your life. Don't dismiss this as a rant, the signs are all there.
Ridicule, name calling and dismissal of every valid opinion because they're a 'boomer' is just the beginning.
My PP is real, I ride a fast motorcycle, keep myself in shape, but years are not just a number as some people think, they will catch me, and you. When that happens, I pray the generation I protected, and kept safe, (ATC) will not turn on me.
As far as the poor choice of careers, by aspiring tech students, all of those jobs will be filled by AI soon.
If you're young and want a good life, learn a trade, we will always need skilled tradesmen, and AI cannot do that. Everything else is a dead end job. Doctors, Lawyers and many professions that are very lucrative now, will be done by a machine, and very soon. But you know all that.
I think this is what Covid was meant to achieve when being designed, sadly enough.
I'm tempted to unsubscribe, your guests all seem to start out with generational warfare, and end up making stupid comments about how baby boomers grew up in a period of abundance.
(Carter was worse than Biden) This is total nonsense, and I don't have time to explain my life story about working 12 hour days at manual labor since 1973, with the social security statement to prove it.
I can only presume these young guests you have do not have the inclination to spend time with a few seniors and ask them about what things were like. 1st hand information is the ONLY information you can trust. Anyone can say anything in a book, or a 2 minute article on the internet. I could go on, but I have to get to work, all that abundance I have, still requires me to work well into my retirement years.
I am sorry you feel that way. This show was about generational politics generally, as the older people I talk to and am close with generally don't understand the political grievances of young people, most of which stem from have having been harangued by former hippies about the importance of the Civil Rights Act (and like nonsense) for their formative years, then being locked up during Covid for the benefit of the old. Of course, that is an incomplete picture. But it is the root of that grievance
More generally, such complaints refer to the bad ones. When older people complain about entitled millenials, as I've heard countless times, they are obviously complaining about the urban hipster crowd...not JD Vance or his type of person.
Overall, I do think the different age groups need to understand the worldviews of the others, as it matters for framing. To tell some 23 year old who finished a computer engineering degree but didn't get a job because Microsoft is hiring H-1Bs and DEI buffoons to "just work harder" is going to be received as poorly as telling a 74-year-old who paid into Social Security his whole life and relies on it that it needs to go away because America can't afford it
I've seen many boomers say that they used to feel that way, but after seeing how bad things are getting, they now agree that the complaints are true in regards to most boomers - just not them specifically.
Personally, I've noticed a lot of older guys dismiss crucial differences, like access to having a wife or not being entirely surrounded by foreigners. You can't "try harder" or "work harder" when you're in an epidemic.