Population and Housing

[Acitta]

I am a boomer. I programmed an IBM 360 by typing programs on hollerith cards on an 029 keypunch. I bought my first personal computer in 1979. I built an acoustic modem from a kit. When did you buy your first computer, kid?

Back when Cyrix was rocking the x86 market. RIP Cyrix, they had some good processors.

Anyway, my point isn't that boomers are actually bad, it's just that a good portion of them aren't willing to own their generations mistakes or acknowledge how drastically the world has changed which I was commenting on in regards to a post talking about that they often have no sympathy for young people who now live in a drastically much more challenging world than the one they grew up in. In many ways they had an easy life whereas youth today...not so much. And as a result, it gets annoying hearing them talk down to people about how they're lazy or need to work harder, which we hear a lot of now because technology is now so simple it allows any old person to post their nonsense online. Kids went ahead and created that entire short lived "OK boomer" meme as a way to reply to something that is so ass backwards the only way you can reply to it is to just sarcastically acknowledge it.

Like baseless ageist comments?

Don't take it so seriously, I'm sure you understood what I meant. Most boomers are fine. Some are even super self-aware and surrealist like the YouTuber Featureman. But there's a certain group of them who say really dumb shit. Someone doesn't even need to be of that generation, it's more a term to describe certain points of view that people have.

It is not that there are good reasons to criticize some people, the problem is making blanket statements as if they apply to a whole group, whether that is people born in a particular decade or people having some other minor characteristic in common like skin colour or sexual orientation. We make arbitrary groupings of people and then claim that they are all the same when they are not.