Wrong "group" to "attack" plus blame just keeps everything and everyone stuck. The division of society working, we are being well distracted.
Boomers had no internet and mobile phones. A daily newspaper and a couple tv stations that showed news which everyone watched at the same time were news
Darn, message published before I finished.
Boomers bought a house, a car and had children and took holidays. Blinkered by monopoly of news sources.
Rarely did anyone have an investment property or stocks and shares. Most saved to pay off the family home which they might have occasionally sold to upgrade.
Would you have done differently?
Remember, no internet or mobile phones. A daily paper and news program that everyone viewed at same time each evening fed by a monopoly on media.
The money printers and government policies increased house prices.
What would you have done?
Not many, if anyone, was aware of how the overall money system worked. I'm in my late 60s and only learned that recently, when I finally have some free time in my life to look. Going down Bitcoin rabbit hole was where I learned any of that.
We were taught to study hard and work hard to make something of our lives. So it's what most of us did. No way could the average person back then foresee any of what is showing up these days.
Can you know what the next 50 years will bring and what you need to do now to support gen-z or younger?
If you did know, how much change could you effect other than by promoting and fighting for the honest money of Bitcoin?
How many boomers do you see in the Bitcoin community who are making a huge difference?
When we know, we do better. Applies to us all.
Good point indeed. This is very true. There was no internet, which I do absolutely agree is a revolutionary and by far the most important tool the our (Millenials) generation have. There always were libraries and books all around but there wasn't the incentives to learn because life was good and everything worked.
There were no incentives to learn. Life was good.
But still, nowadays I see a lot of boomers too attached to their ways (materialistic, self-centered and without the same drive to learn, evolve, share). I think that might not work well for them in the next decade in my view and it already shows. The world is becoming more dangerous and complicated in many places. People need to open up a little bit or they'll suffer much more than necessary.
I agree, the system was not nearing its end and things worked, although keep an eye out for the boomers who are part of the change. They are around. Look at George Bodine, Jeff Booth, Larry Lepard, Donald Trump, Max Keiser, Stacey Herbert, Michael Saylor, Adam Back, Howard Lutnick, just to name a few of many.
The ones who are tired and no longer wanting to learn, we'll simply need to feel empathy for them. Many or most might survive with support of children. 🧡✨
Yeah absolutely. Senator Lummis is another one too. It was incredible seeing her verbally say that she's doing this to undo some of the things that they (the boomers in this case) did to younger generations.
That for me was a right on. That's what I would do if I was in her position. That's honor right there.
When people talk about “what the boomers did to younger generations,” I often find myself wondering, how were we supposed to know what was happening beneath the surface unless we went out of our way to really dig for the truth? At a time when nothing appeared to be obviously wrong, unlike today.
Back then, that meant physically going to a library, hoping to stumble upon the right books about money systems or economics. We didn’t have the internet or access to insider knowledge. We simply did our best with what we had.
Most of us lived modestly, buying only what we needed, avoiding debt, saving up carefully for things like a home or a car. We brought lunch from home, cooked meals ourselves and tried to be responsible with money. We would fix things rather than throw them away, e.g. having the same furnishings for years on end and wearing clothing until they wore out or handing them down. Looking back, we didn’t feel like we were being wasteful or causing harm, we were just trying to build a stable life.
Even today, many younger people don’t see the deeper issues in the system. It often seems like it’s only those exploring Bitcoin and alternative ideas who are really diving deep, with the benefit of hindsight and easy access to a world of information online. I understand the frustration, I really do, however asking people to apologize for things they had no knowledge of at the time feels a bit misplaced.
What exactly do you feel we, as boomers, did wrong?
I recently saw an image expressing this generational tension and couldn’t help but feel it was extreme. If your own children spoke to you that way when you are older and had worked hard for many decades, how would it make you feel?
My husband and I are nearing 70 and 80. We’ve worked hard our whole lives and still are. We rent and we don’t have children. My husband generously left homes to two ex-wives and I once owned a home too. I left teaching after 23 years and took advice from a financial advisor that eventually led to losing it.
Now, we’re both more financially informed, thanks largely to studying Bitcoin and having access to the amazing resources online today.
We genuinely relate to the struggles young people face trying to buy a home or get ahead. We just find it difficult to understand the anger aimed at our generation. It feels like we’re being blamed for something that the majority (if any) of us had no idea was happening.
Respect from this millennial 🫡
