Bro every time I think about the world the boomers were born into and then look at the world they handed us I wanna break shit.
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100%.
Had it all and fumbled it all
My wife always tells me to leave the poor boomers alone, but fuck that. This is generational warfare.
Most had little knowledge of the bigger picture…
I mean me too but
How many generations post-boomer do you think it'll take for a generation to get back to that same level on opportunity/prosperity metrics?
If we get serious and use our Bitcoin wealth for good I think we can do it in two.
Love the optimism and completely agree it can be done if the intransigent minority can stay locked the fuck in through the incoming storm.
Let's make it happen ✊️
I think our generation (Millenial) can make it much better, especially in small spots around the world.
Understandable
Very negative thinking Hodl, be more positive.
The rent seeking is madness.
It’s just a general thoughtlessness that prizes this fake fiat economic growth over every other thing in our society. High trust society? Nah go fuck yourself. We’re making our McMansions inflate. Deal with it kid.
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The best is they still yapping about this stuff
Buy as much bitcoin as you can.
Hard times make strong men.
Strong men make good times.
Good times make weak men.
Weak men make hard times.
Uhm boomers were born into rolling around in the grass smoking pot. I was born into the boomer shooter, RTS games, early MMOs, Nintendo, and the 90s arcade. I know which one I'm choosing and it's not the grass.
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They did not know what western governments would do with respect to money printing, and house price increases through mass migration. This anti-boomer sentiment just increases division.
I mean they played the hand they were dealt. And even that’s being too generous. They didn’t know the hand they were being dealt and kind of just fell ass-backward into it. They kinda bumbled into “what they have” really.
It's just one of those days
When you don't wanna wake up
Everything is fucked
Everybody sucks
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I get ya. I also know my dad is slightly too old to be a boomer. the He was born into a world with essentially no compute. Started his career at IBM fixing punch card computers in the auto factories. Ended his career at IBM working on upgrades to the AS400 mainframe. Now he’s at the end of his life and we have 1000 times more powerful computers in our pocket capable of nostr and bitcoin. The generations we follow did some pretty good stuff too, might as well enjoy it without the bitterness.
Could be just me but seems boomers aren’t generous at all.
I want to be the anti boomer. Give abundantly as often as I can.
I’m not going to defend boomers, but I think that everyone white washes the history of the second half of the 20th century. There were massive amounts of turmoil. We down play the risks of the time because we know how everything turns out.
Probably best to leave it in the sun first so it hardens. A brittle failure is probably mire satisfactory
It makes you wonder how much crap was ignored
I let it go after leaving the workforce.
GenX & Millennials are just as selfish & retarded, they just weren't in from the start of the pyramid scheme.
There's so few at the top of the Pyramid, you really can't blame any particular race, religion, gender or generation.
I get excited about what's coming & feel a bit sad for those that won't be around to experience it directly. It's going to be wild, man.
Fix the money ✅
Fix the word 🟠
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Yeah a world war, communism, Vietnam, Cold War, 1986, 2001, 2008……we have it so much worste….
They just did stuff
I don’t want to hate on individual Boomers, I probably wouldn’t have done anything better than they have.
But one thing I know for sure, when the values of their real estate gets demonetised through Bitcoin, I will care as much about them, as they cared about us, when housing got unaffordable for us.
Bro every time I think about the world the boomers were born into and then look at the world they handed us I wanna fix shit.
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 🫡
Me too. Although it must be said that every generation takes it out on the previous one or the next one 🤷♂️
Boomers in the streets https://youtu.be/7C0iEAPLqjw Where are all the many young people to support farmers and firefighters? I see a ton of boomers in this group.
Population: 71.6 million Boomers in the U.S. as of 2025 (U.S. Census Bureau).
Wealth: Hold 53.2% of U.S. household net worth in 2023 (Federal Reserve).
Workforce: 29% of 65-72-year-olds still working in 2023 (Pew Research).
Healthcare: Will account for 56% of Medicare costs by 2030 (CMS).
Divorce: Divorce rate for over-50s doubled from 1990-2019; 36% divorced (NCFMR).
Politics: 31% of voters in 2024; many leaders are Boomers (Census Voting Data).
Environment: CO2 emissions rose 90% from 1970-2020 during their working years (Global Carbon Project).
Housing: 54% of U.S. homeowners over 55 in 2023, reducing inventory (NAR).
Culture: Drove civil rights, feminism, and anti-Vietnam War movements in the 1960s-70s.
Tech: 68% owned smartphones in 2023; 70% of 50-64-year-olds use Facebook (Pew Research).
I don't really want to add fuel to fire but lately I've been going through this clash also.
The thing that annoys me the most is the lack of learning. Our generation (Millenials and Generation X in this case) had to learn everything and we're still learning and adapting.
Baby boomers didn't have to learn anything. If they had learned something, you know, at least opened a book (ahah), we would have had a much much better society by now. The few baby boomers I've met that learned something new are incredibly useful to society nowadays. If there were more of this kind we would've had a completely different society in the west, in my view.
But hey, it is what is, and there's always opportunities from all of this. But I feel you man.
If the world is thought of as something that humans extract resources from and conquer, then, yes, much has been extracted, and we are facing negative externalities. But, take a hard look at that point of view in the first place. This comes from the same culture that got us into our predicament, and goes back much further than boomers. We are part of an engine of destructive culture that goes back 10,000 years (although, modernity and the last 150 years makes the previous 9,850 years look like Eden). Until we dig a bit deeper, we will always find somebody to blame besides ourselves (and our culture that we *all* share, although the experience of negative externalities and freedom is not proportional).
Building anew 🧡
Great book on this is A Generation of Sociopaths by Bruce Cannon Gibney
Mmm 🤔
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That’s how we got Rage Against The Machine.
Lol you and Walker make me laugh, when you guys are 75 and Bitcoin is at whatever
All the GenAlphas be having podcasts saying those guys got to buy Bitcoin for a handful of raspberries
It's life, it goes on